From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-05-30T22:30:38+09:00
Subject: Re: substitution weirdness

Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:48:04PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
>> 
>> foo = "'123"
>> puts foo.gsub(/'/) {'\\'+"'"}
>> 
>> I find it more readable than the multiply-self-escaping string of
>> backslashes.
> 
> But '\\' and "\\" are the same thing (a single backslash)

Yeah, that was simply a matter of defaulting to '' for constant strings
unless I need a "'"

> So concatenating two strings like that doesn't help you at all.

Oops - so it doesn't. Please to ignore that post. What did help is that
"\\'" doesn't seem to be magic in the {} form of gsub.

martin