From: Edwin Pratomo Date: 2003-07-15T16:09:21+09:00 Subject: Re: how to insert a carriage return in a string On Tuesday 15 July 2003 13:46, Emmanuel Touzery wrote: > irb(main):003:0> myString.gsub("\\n", "\n") > "a\\nb" > > obviously i want to get "a\nb" (from "a\\nb"). How I am supposed to do > that? myString.gsub(/\\n/, "\n") rgds, Edwin.