From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T19:02:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Very nasty piece of code

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> Monday, January 27, 2003, 12:44:41 PM, you wrote:
> PH> while string =~ /(&#([0-9a-fA-F]{2});)/ do
> PH>    # Converting from &#XX; to \'XX
> 
> PH>    string.sub!($1, "\\\\\\\''#{$2}")
> 
> smth like
> 
> string.sub! $1 {"\\'#{$2}"}
> 
> or even
> 
> string.sub! $1 {"\\'" . $2}
> 
> 2all: this may go to faq?
> 
> 

Neither of those actually parse!

What version of Ruby are you using.