From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2009-01-21T06:48:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Gsub!("\n","\n")

Simon Tan wrote:
> I have a string(I believe...I'm 
> using Hpricot to retreive web pages and it likes to add slashes to 
> everything). For example, I want to change "Hello, \nWorld" by changing 
> \n into a newline.

Perhaps there's a misunderstanding here. I doubt Hpricot adds anything. 
If you see this "Hello, \nWorld" in 'irb' then that's because 'irb' 
shows you the string in the way you'd write it in your source-code. The 
two characters "\n" are actually a newline.
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