On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 19:38, Moxley Stratton <moxley.stratton / gmail.com> wrote: > puts "\\" > \ > puts "s".gsub("s", "\\") > \ There¡Çs nothing to escape, thus ¡È\¡É. > puts "s".gsub("s", "\\\\") > \ There¡Çs a backslash to escape, thus ¡È\¡É.