From: nobu.nokada@... Date: 2003-05-30T13:13:51+09:00 Subject: Re: substitution weirdness Hi, At Fri, 30 May 2003 07:10:13 +0900, Ian Macdonald wrote: > This works for me, too, and is a little more readable to my eyes: > > "'123".gsub(/'/) { %q(\\') } Or: "'123".gsub(/'/, '\\&') -- Nobu Nakada