From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2003-07-23T21:19:00+09:00
Subject: Re: String substitution without RegEx

> From: Andreas Schwarz [mailto:usenet@andreas-s.net] wrote:

> irb(main):001:0> "foo.bar".gsub '.', "*"
> => "*******"
> 
> 
C:\family\ruby>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-26) [i386-mswin32]

C:\family\ruby>irb -v
irb 0.9(02/07/03)

C:\family\ruby>irb
irb(main):001:0> "asdfa".gsub "a","xxx"
=> "xxxsdfxxx"
irb(main):002:0> "?sdf?".gsub "?","xxx"
(irb):2: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters no longer
eff
ective
=> "xxxsdfxxx"