Jeremy Tregunna wrote: > > On 30-Sep-05, at 2:50 AM, Kev Jackson wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I need to escape / in a gsub! >> >> eg >> >> line = line.gsub!(///, '') > > > line.gsub!(/\//, '') > >> >> Unfortunately I don't know how to escape the / (forward slash) - the >> data I'm munging has this in it (annoyingly) > Ta very much, I knew it was something like that but I couldn't get it quite right Much appreciated Kev