Ruby Issue Tracking System

06/11/2013

10:15 PM Ruby Bug #8512: gsub() works incorrect

Hanmac (Hans Mackowiak) wrote:
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Thanks for the explanation. galnaktar (Oleg K)

06:30 PM Ruby Bug #8512 (Rejected): gsub() works incorrect

irb(main):005:0> "\\".gsub("\\", "\\\\").length
=> 1
irb(main):006:0> "\\".gsub("\\", "XX").length
=> 2
bug is duplicated with rejected bug #8511 galnaktar (Oleg K)

05:33 PM Ruby Bug #8511: gsub("\\","\\\\") works incorrect

Should I open new bug? galnaktar (Oleg K)

05:24 PM Ruby Bug #8511: gsub("\\","\\\\") works incorrect

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote:
> I'm not sure what you expect, it works as expected.
irb(main):005:0> "\\".gsub("\\", "\\\\").length
=> 1
irb(main):006:0> "\\".gsub("\\", "XX").length
=> 2
I thought that the length must return ... galnaktar (Oleg K)

04:34 PM Ruby Bug #8511 (Rejected): gsub("\\","\\\\") works incorrect

DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle
irb(main):001:0> a = "\\"
=> "\\"
irb(main):002:0> a.gsub("\\", "\\\\")
=> "\\"
irb(main):003:0> a.gsub("\\", ".")
=> "."
irb(main):004:0> a.gsub(".", "\\\\")
=> "\\"
irb(main):005:0> a = "\\"... galnaktar (Oleg K)