From: John Mcleod Date: 2010-02-09T03:10:08+09:00 Subject: Escaping a period (.) Hello all, I'm in my 4 month of Ruby on Rails and had a question about escaping special characters. How do I escape a period(.)? ie (John F. oobar) I wish to change the period to an ASCII representation. Thank you for any help. JohnM -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.