From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-10-30T00:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub and "\\"

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 coma_killen@fastmail.fm wrote:

> "a".gsub("a") {"\\8?"}

'a'.gsub('a') { %q{\8?} }

the %q operator is nice for this... it saves having to escape the escapes...

-a

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