"Andreas Schwarz" <usenet / andreas-s.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:slrnbhr0jv.d34.usenet / home.andreas-s.net... > I wanted to do a simple string substitution, and was surprised to see > that there isn't such a method in ruby. I can't use String::(g)sub, > because the substitution mustn't be influenced by special chars or > backreferences in the pattern and replacement strings. Of course I could > write functions to escape regex special chars in the pattern and > backreferences in the replacement string, but this is about the ugliest > solution I can think of. > > Andreas > > -- > AVR-Tutorial, er 350 Links > Forum f AVRGCC und MSPGCC > -> http://www.mikrocontroller.net