From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-09-28T15:04:33+09:00
Subject: Re: passing single backslash character as commang line argument

Kashyap Ivaturi wrote:
> I changed the code as you suggested, but I still do not get see the 
> single backslash appearing in the string that gets sent to the test2.rb

When I run it under Linux, I get:

text: Sample Ruby '\' String

Windows is broken in so many ways, I can only guess this is one of them.

> Please let me know what needs to be modified to get the single backslash 
> in the output.

I don't use Windows. You could try doubling the backslash:

text.gsub!(/\\/, '\\\\\\\\')
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