From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-10-31T00:43:24+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I get a '\'?

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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:47:52 +0900, J.Hawkesworth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have one of those USB memory stick things and I've written a
> little ruby script to back up the contents of the memory stick=
 to
> my hard disk. However it is ugly and relies on nasty dos=
 commands
> like xcopy. I'm trying to write a new version that recurses
> through the directories on the memory stick but I can't find a=
 way
> to get ruby to produce a single '\' character (which I need=
 for
> specifiying subdirectories).

> I've tried the same code snippets in a script and get the same
> results. I'm using ruby 1.66 Pragmatic Programmers version on
> Windows 2000. Any bright ideas/wisdom gratefully appreciated.

You should probably upgrade to the latest Ruby-win32 (listed at
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?WindowsInstaller), so that you're
dealing with the latest bugfixes. Note that you can get away=
 with
using forward slashes ('/') if you're only using Ruby file
operations; only when you're doing Windows-based file operations=
 do
you need to do:

    foo.gsub('/', '\\')

The attached code handles what you're after.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.10.30 at=
 10.42.21


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