From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-12-18T06:20:47+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub("\\", "\\\\") seems unintuitive

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Joe Peck <joe@notsleepy.com> wrote:

> 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.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
That's because you are in irb.  You are getting what you want try this:

puts "joe.com".gsub(/\./, "\\\\.")

Actually it might be more readable as gsub('.', '\.')

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