Bug #3833: "foo+bar".gsub("+","\\+") == "foobar" ?

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: tryruby.org (I'm running 1.8.7 locally, same problem)

[grant (Grant Olson)]

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The following gsub with a minus seems to work correctly:

>> "foo-bar".gsub("-","\-")
=> "foo\-bar"

But with a plus, it seems to run incorrectly by stripping the plus:


"foo+bar".gsub("+","\+")
=> "foobar"
=end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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