From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-07-23T02:01:48+09:00
Subject: Re: String substitution without RegEx

>>>>> "A" == Andreas Schwarz <usenet@andreas-s.net> writes:

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

 Perhaps with Regexp#escape

svg% ruby -e 'p "[]{}".gsub(/#{Regexp.escape("]{")}/, Regexp.escape("\\1"))'
"[\\1}"
svg% 


Guy Decoux