# Gsub

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gsub/156318>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 24, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gsub/156318 "2008-12-24T12:49:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mjayakumar2k6](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mjayakumar2k6](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mjayakumar2k6)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gsub/156318/1 "2008-12-24T12:49:10Z")

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hi ,

I have a string with “”. how can i gsub the string?

i tried

“”.gsub(’’,’’)

but it is giving error.

thanks in advance  
JK

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**Author:** ![mjayakumar2k6](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mjayakumar2k6](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mjayakumar2k6)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gsub/156318/2 "2008-12-25T07:20:08Z")

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Frederick C. wrote:

> On Dec 24, 11:49�am, Jayakumar Manickam \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-  
> [s.net](http://s.net)\> wrote:
> 
> > hi ,
> > 
> > �I have a string with "". how can i gsub the string?
> > 
> > i tried
> > 
> > "".gsub(‘',’')
> > 
> > but it is giving error.
> 
> Neither of those string literals because the \ escapes the close quote  
> mark. You need to escape literal backslashes.
> 
> Fred

i tried “\”.gsub(‘\’,‘’). it is working fine.

thanks

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**Author:** ![mjayakumar2k6](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mjayakumar2k6](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mjayakumar2k6)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gsub/156318/3 "2008-12-24T12:57:47Z")

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On Dec 24, 11:49 am, Jayakumar Manickam \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-  
[s.net](http://s.net)\> wrote:

> hi ,
> 
> I have a string with "". how can i gsub the string?
> 
> i tried
> 
> "".gsub(‘',’')
> 
> but it is giving error.

Neither of those string literals because the \ escapes the close quote  
mark. You need to escape literal backslashes.

Fred