Question

I am trying to find a regex that matches any string with two consecutive backslashes. I’m trying every variation, any help? And info on handling backslashes

b='\\mystring'

if b=~/\\\\/
  puts "it matches"
end

I can’t seem to get this to match.

Answer 1

Your regex looks good, but your string does NOT contain two backslashes, it just contains one. It looks like it contains two but that’s only in your source file, not in the actual string. Try this:

'\\\\mystring' =~ /\\\\/