From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-05-20T02:04:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Regular Expression

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:54:24AM +0900, Mario Ruiz wrote:
> 
> I'm replacing a string using:
> xmlString.gsub!(/:#{tagName}>#{oldValue}<\//i,":" + tagName + ">" +
> value + "</")
> 
> It works perfectly but... if oldValue contains the character +, it
> doesn't work.
> 
> Do you know how to solve this?

Use Regexp.escape():

  xmlString.gsub!(/:#{tagName}>#{Regexp.escape(oldValue)}<\//i,":" + tagName + ">" +
    value + "</")

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Aaron Patterson
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