\t\t\t\tMy ruby problem of the day: I have e-mail addresses, and I want to use them within procmail rules. Therefore certain characters like the dot character and also the “+”\u00a0 need escaping.<\/p>\n
It took me an endless while, like certain things always take an endless while on unknown grounds.<\/p>\n
I started with single quotes just as in the gsub examples in the pickaxe3 book. <\/p>\n
I didn’t get the right number of backslashs in place within the replacement string, as long as the replacement string used single quotes.<\/p>\n
Finally a Google search for “ruby gsub replacement backslash<\/i>” led me to a solution. Not to an overly serious one, to be honest.<\/p>\n
The example there used double quotes, so I replaced my single quotes with double quotes, and I started again increasing the number of accumulated backslash characters. That way I achieved within a pretty short time, what I needed to achieve. Not that I had learned too<\/b> much.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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