escaping '

[David Nguyen]

Hi,
I need to replace ' by \'. How can I do that?

Thanks

 

[John Pritchard-williams]

Hi,
I need to replace ' by \'. How can I do that?

Thanks

This was harder than I thought...in "vi"(vim actually) I just had to:

1,$ s/'/\\'/g

But Ruby didn't seem to like that....

Anyway, for reasons unknown to me, this works:

puts "'hello'".gsub("'","\\\\'")

Cheers

John

 

[Peña, Botp]

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[John Pritchard-williams]

//how i wish the behaviour would change.
search the archives. this is a faq //

oops sorry (I did it again)...perhaps you could include the link to
where this is explained though...