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Asked: 2026-05-28T13:14:51+00:00

I want to replace apostrophe(‘) in a name with backslash apostrophe (\’) . But

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I want to replace apostrophe(‘) in a name with “backslash apostrophe” (\’) . But Unfortunately not getting such a simple thing.

So on irb I tried following

x = “stack’s”
x.gsub(/[\’]/,”\'”)

Some how it is not working I am getting same result- stack’s in place of stack\’s

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this out:

    x.gsub(/[']/,"\\\\\'")

    Result:

    1.9.3p0 :014 > puts x.gsub(/[']/,"\\\\\'")
anupam\'s
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