From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-04-09T04:16:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Can someone explain what's happening here? (String#gsub question)

--- Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Can someone explain what's happening here? (String#gsub
> question)"
>     on 03/04/09, Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com>
> writes:
> 
> |What's going on here?
> |
> |"hello".gsub(/([aeiou])/,�'<\1>')  => h<e>ll<o>
> |
> |"hello".gsub(/([aeiou])/,�"<\1>")  => h<^A>ll<^A>
> 
> \1 in double quoted string is considered as \001 (^A) before
> reaching gsub.

Ok, I get that; thanks.  "<\\1>" did what I expected.

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