C:\family\ruby>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-05-26) [i386-mswin32]
C:\family\ruby>irb -v
irb 0.9(02/07/03)
C:\family\ruby>irb
irb(main):001:0> “asdfa”.gsub “a”,“xxx”
=> “xxxsdfxxx”
irb(main):002:0> “?sdf?”.gsub “?”,“xxx”
(irb):2: warning: string pattern instead of regexp; metacharacters no longer
eff
ective
=> “xxxsdfxxx”
···
From: Andreas Schwarz [mailto:usenet@andreas-s.net] wrote:
irb(main):001:0> “foo.bar”.gsub ‘.’, “"
=> "******”