On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 19:38, Moxley Stratton
<moxley.stratton / gmail.com> wrote:

> puts "\\"
> \

> puts "s".gsub("s", "\\")
> \

There nothing to escape, thus 

> puts "s".gsub("s", "\\\\")
> \

There¡Çs a backslash to escape, thus ¡È\¡É.