"Norbert Koch" <nk / LF.net> wrote in message news:vzy9sp9lis.fsf / lamia.LF.net... > I've successfully tried > > puts s.gsub("'", "\\\\'") >> yadda\'yadda\'yadda I see. I guess I was confused by irb's output (it seems any occurences of "\" in the evaluated expression is escaped - which is a nice feature when you are aware of it). Thanks. /Christian