From: Kirk Lowery <kelowery@...>
Date: 2002-03-21T03:28:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex backreference in method "sub"

Thomas Hurst (tom.hurst@clara.net) wrote:

>The correct way to talk about backreferences is the traditional \
>operator:
>
>line.sub!(/(str)ing/,'\1')
>
>Since this is evaluated by the regexp engine rather than the string
>object.
>
>Remember you need to escape it in double quotes, i.e. "\\1".
>
This works. I just need to do a better job of RTFM. I was using the 
Nutshell book which does not mention this. But "Programming Ruby" and 
the manual both mention this.

Thanks!

Kirk