From: Dominik Werder <dwerder@...>
Date: 2003-06-11T06:54:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp question

> Unfortunately, not only are double backslashes converted to a single
> backslash when the string is parsed, but an additional substitution pass 
> is
> made by sub() which also converts double backslashes to single 
> backslashes,
> as well as interpreting: (\1), (\2), (\3), etc., (\&), (\+), (\`), and 
> (\').
> So you need to pass sub() the string (\\'), which means that the literal
> must be "\\\\'" (or even worse, '\\\\\''):
>
> my_string.gsub("'","\\\\'")
>
> I hope this helps!

Yes, this explains alot !!

bye!
Dominik