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Bug #11132

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String#sub and character sequence \' in replacement string

Added by gettalong (Thomas Leitner) almost 9 years ago. Updated almost 9 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
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ruby -v:
ruby 2.2.2p95 (2015-04-13 revision 50295) [x86_64-linux]
[ruby-core:69121]

Description

Hi,

I don't know if this is intentional but substitution of \' and \` in the replacement string was rather unexpected for me:

2.2.2 :001 > "this is a test".sub(/this/, "some text \\'")
 => "some text  is a test is a test"

I would have expected the following result:

 => "some text \\' is a test"

The documentation says nothing about this, just that back-references can be used (i.e. \\d or \\k<n>).

A work-around is escaping the escape character:

2.2.2 :001 > "this is a test".sub(/this/, "some text \\\\'")                                                                                          
 => "some text \\' is a test"

Thanks!

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) almost 9 years ago

It's a spec, but seems there is no docs about it.
This is a documentation issue.

Actions #2

Updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) almost 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset r50509.


Actions #3

Updated by usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) almost 9 years ago

  • Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN to 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED
Actions #4

Updated by usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) almost 9 years ago

  • Backport changed from 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: REQUIRED

ruby_2_1 r50582 merged revision(s) 50509.

Updated by nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga) almost 9 years ago

  • Backport changed from 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: DONE

Backported into ruby_2_2 branch at r50628.

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