From: Fabian Streitel <karottenreibe@...>
Date: 2009-09-07T17:36:29+09:00
Subject: '\\\\\\\\' madness?

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hi,
trying to solve someones mailinglist posted problem, I just created my own.
Why do 2 backslashes produce the same result as 4 and 6 the same as 8?

014:0> 'ab'.gsub('a', '\\')
    => "\\b"
015:0> 'ab'.gsub('a', '\\\\')
    => "\\b"
016:0> 'ab'.gsub('a', '\\\\\\')
    => "\\\\b"
017:0> 'ab'.gsub('a', '\\\\\\\\')
    => "\\\\b"
018:0> RUBY_DESCRIPTION
    => "ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-linux]"

Doesn't that strike anyone as odd?
Greetz!

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