From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2009-02-25T04:04:33+09:00
Subject: Re: String#gsub escaping special characters

Gary Yngve <gary.yngve@gmail.com> wrote:

> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
> 
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Gary Yngve <gary.yngve@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The magic incantation from trial and error is:
> > "\\\\\'"
> >
> 
> that should be "\\\\'" or '\\\\\''.
> 
> i feel dirty now.

This comes up a lot, including in a post of mine where I tripped over
much the same thing. The real solution is: except in very simple cases,
don't use gsub(/regex/, "string"); use the block form instead. m.

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