From: Kendall Gifford <zettabyte@...>
Date: 2009-06-13T02:53:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Remove double backslash in string "c:\\test"



On Jun 12, 11:42 am, Peter Tosh <nl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after lots of trying and searching, I still cant figure out how to
> remove the second backslash in a string:
>
> "c:\\test"
>
> I need it with one backslash for a comparison in my db.
>

Here is my working IRB session example:

irb(main):001:0> a = "c:\\\\test" # creates w/double backslashes
irb(main):002:0> puts a.sub(/\\\\/, "\\") # prints replaced version