From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-29T12:13:25+09:00
Subject: Re: How to specify the period "." character when doing a gsub.

On Sunday, December 29, 2002, 2:07:56 PM, Kurt wrote:

> All-

> Plz advise how to specify the period "." character when doing a gsub.

> eg, doing this:

>    some_object.gsub(/123.456/, "some_string")

> seems to treat the "." as a wildcard of some kind. I'd like to hit on the actual character.

> Thanks!

> -ke


'.' is indeed a wildcard (or a "metacharater").  It matches anything
except newline (maybe one or two others - see Pickaxe for details).

Escape it with a backslash to match a literal '.'.

Gavin