From: Tadeusz Bochan Date: 2013-05-29T19:29:39+09:00 Subject: Re: AAARRRRGH! s="#$" => SyntaxError: compile error Ooops. Spoke too soon. The workaround doesn't. "xyz#abc".gsub("#","\\043") => "xyz#43abc" -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.