From: Joe Peck <joe@...>
Date: 2008-12-18T06:12:03+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub("\\", "\\\\") seems unintuitive

Joe Peck wrote:
> I stumbled onto this thread trying to figure out a similar problem...

Dangit, I didn't mean to post the above message :)

Okay, I need to read a site name (like "joe.com") and put a \ in front 
of the period (so it would be "joe\.com").  I'm having trouble with 
this, I can't seem to get only ONE \ in front of the period...

>> "joe.com".gsub(/\./, "\\\.")
=> "joe\\.com"
>> "joe.com".gsub(/\./, "\\\\.")
=> "joe\\.com"

Anyone have a clue what to do?  I'm probably missing something simple.
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