From: Peter Date: 2003-12-17T05:09:40+09:00 Subject: Re: substituting apostrphe's > irb(main):003:0> a = "a" > => "a" > irb(main):004:0> a.gsub(/a/, '\'') > => "'" > irb(main):007:0> a = "abc" > => "abc" > irb(main):008:0> a.gsub(/a/, '\\\'') Did it again... The last line gives "bcbc" as result. Peter