From: Alan Munn <amunn@...>
Date: 2009-07-21T05:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: including newlines in a .sub

In article <200907202136.26888.sepp00@web.de>,
 Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Montag 20 Juli 2009 21:30:06 schrieb Alan Munn:
> > line = line.sub(/ /, '\n')
> 
> In ruby "\n" is a newline, while '\n' is backslash followed by an n.

Perfect.  Thanks. I had tried that with my more complicated example 
(which included reference to capture groups from the regex) and it 
didn't work, but now I realise I need to concatenate the pieces together 
with a mix of single and double quotes to get it to work. 

Alan