[ruby-talk:25442] Re: Bug in String.sub and friends?

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nobu.nokada / softhome.net writes:

> At Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:55:54 +0900,
> Matt Armstrong <matt+dated+1008460550.550a83 / lickey.com> wrote:
>> irb(main):005:0> s.gsub(/(s)/, '\\\1')
>> "the\\1tring"
> irb(main):006:0> '\\\1'
> "\\\\1"
>
> This means an escaped backslash followed by 1.
>
>> All are correct except for the last -- I expect the last one to be
>> "the\\string".
> irb(main):007:0> s.gsub(/(s)/, '\\\\\1')
> "the\\string"

Thanks.  My confusion was because '\1' == '\\1'.


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