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Ruby string escaping weirdness

Well, that's odd... (ruby 1.8.7)

irb(main):021:0> '\\' + 'x'
=> "\\x"
irb(main):022:0> "x".gsub("x",'\\' + 'x')
=> "\\x"
irb(main):023:0> '\\' + '&'
=> "\\&"
irb(main):024:0> "&".gsub("&",'\\' + '&')
=> "&"

Posted by Zed on June 12, 2009 6:36 PM |

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