From: Max Schmidt <max.schmidt.privat@...>
Date: 2010-04-01T08:13:51+09:00
Subject: Re: how to solve this regular expression problem

>s.gsub!(/#(\d+);/) { '\'+$1.to_i.to_s(8)}

>is giving some compile error.

You have to escape the slash (\) like this

>s.gsub!(/#(\d+);/) { '\\'+$1.to_i.to_s(8)}
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