From: Greg Millam <walker@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T18:38:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Few question about IO

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Radek Hnilica wrote:

> does not work for me:
> irb(main):032:0> ": dbl dup + ;".gsub(%r[(\s|^)\+(\s|$)], %Q[\1:plus:\2])
> => ": dbl dup\001:plus:\002;"
>
> something is wrong with \1 and \2

My bad - need to escape those.

\\1 and \\2

irb(main):032:0> ": dbl dup + ;".gsub(%r[(\s|^)\+(\s|$)], %Q[\\1:plus:\\2])

Whoops.
- Greg

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> Radek Hnilica <Radek at Hnilica dot CZ>

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Greg Millam
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