From: Daniel Bretoi <lists@...>
Date: 2003-12-17T04:44:36+09:00
Subject: substituting apostrphe's

Hi,

I have a bit of a problem, I can't seem to substitute an apostrphe
successfully

a =  "'"
a.gsub!(/'/,'\\\'')
puts a

gives me nothing.

two backslash gives me syntax error.

one backslash gives me just the apostrophy.

How do I do this?

db

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