Gsubbing ' to \'

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I was trying to escape some apostrophes with gsub. The only way I could
get it to work is by doing:

result.gsub!(/’/) {%q!’!}

There has got to be a better way than this. What was I doing wrong?

-Kurt

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Try: result.gsub!(/‘/) { "\’" }

Kurt M. Dresner wrote:

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I was trying to escape some apostrophes with gsub. The only way I could
get it to work is by doing:

result.gsub!(/'/) {%q!'!}

There has got to be a better way than this. What was I doing wrong?

-Kurt