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Escape A Character With Backslashes

09.16.2006
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        Ruby:

s = "12345"
puts s.gsub(/(2|4)/, '\\\\\1')


PHP:

$s="12345";
print preg_replace("/(2|4)/", '\\\\\1', $s);


Perl:

$s="123456";
$s =~ s/(2|4)/\\\1x/g;
print $s;
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