From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-05-30T20:48:04+09:00
Subject: Re: substitution weirdness

Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to replace every instance of ' with \' but it's proving very
> tricky. Nothing I can come up with seems to work, no matter how many
> backslashes I use, whether I use single or double quotes, whether or not
> I use gsub with a block, etc.
> 
> This should be so easy, but it has me stumped.

foo = "'123"
puts foo.gsub(/'/) {'\\'+"'"}

I find it more readable than the multiply-self-escaping string of
backslashes.

martin