This line of code used to work in Ruby 1.9.3, but it fails in Ruby 2.0: @data[:VR] = line[1].strip.gsub( /\xB6|\xFF/, '' ) The error I get is: Test.rb:75: invalid multibyte escape: /\xB6|\xFF/ (SyntaxError) invalid multibyte escape: /\xB6|\xFF/ invalid multibyte escape: /[\xB6\xFF@"'].+/ I assume I'm supposed to be changing some encoding somewhere, or perhaps using "\u0080" or something like that, but I'm a bit stumped at the moment. Any ideas? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.