From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2013-01-18T00:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Escaped backslashes in input strings - newbie question

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Carlo E. Prelz <fluido@fluido.as> wrote:

>> If, at IRB, I write: x = "\b99m\BTc" (not \u which gives an 'invalid
>> Unicode escape')

Which is because the string is being interpreted due to being
wrapped in double quotes; on the other hand,

1.9.3 (main):0 > '\u99m\UTc'.gsub(/\\./,"")
=> "99mTc"
1.9.3 (main):0 >

seems to work just fine :-)

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