From: "Carlo E. Prelz" Date: 2013-02-21T19:31:18+09:00 Subject: Re: backslash substitution Subject: backslash substitution Date: gio 21 feb 13 07:26:23 +0900 Quoting Mario Ruiz (lists@ruby-forum.com): > don't know why... but this is not working > a=" xxxxxx\tttt\3.4.2\uuuu" > puts a.gsub('\\','/') There has been a recent thread about this. You string should be defined as. a=" xxxxxx\\tttt\\3.4.2\\uuuu" Carlo -- * Se la Strada e la sua Virtu' non fossero state messe da parte, * K * Carlo E. Prelz - fluido@fluido.as che bisogno ci sarebbe * di parlare tanto di amore e di rettitudine? (Chuang-Tzu)