From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2003-07-23T01:55:29+09:00
Subject: Re: String substitution without RegEx

ts wrote:
>>>>>> "A" == Andreas Schwarz <usenet@andreas-s.net> writes:
> 
>A> I wanted to do a simple string substitution, and was surprised to see
>A> that there isn't such a method in ruby. I can't use String::(g)sub,
>A> because the substitution mustn't be influenced by special chars or
>A> backreferences in the pattern and replacement strings. Of course I could
>A> write functions to escape regex special chars in the pattern and
>A> backreferences in the replacement string, but this is about the ugliest
>A> solution I can think of.
> 
>  Well Regexp#escape don't do what you want ?

I would still need a function to remove backreferences from the
replacement string. It's possible, of course, but it hurts me that I
have to use such "hacks" for a simple substitution.

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