From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-02-20T09:27:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby RE expression anomaly.

RichardOnRails wrote:
>

1) My tests show that you need 10 backslashes in the substitution to get 
3 in the final result.

line = "HREF="
line.sub!(/(HREF=)/, '\1file:\\\\\\\\\\')

p line
puts line

--output:--
"HREF=file:\\\\\\"
HREF=file:\\\

10 backslashes in sub
-----------------------  =  3.3 backslashes per desired backslash.  lol.
3 backslashes in final result

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