# Hey, how do you make a regular expression visible?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hey-how-do-you-make-a-regular-expression-visible/126873>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 23, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hey-how-do-you-make-a-regular-expression-visible/126873 "2008-01-23T00:35:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hey-how-do-you-make-a-regular-expression-visible/126873/1 "2008-01-23T00:35:28Z")

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I’ve got all these strings in this object holding regular expressions,  
and I want to report on them accurately, but all my backslashes are  
disappearing. Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hey-how-do-you-make-a-regular-expression-visible/126873/2 "2008-01-23T01:10:46Z")

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Xeno C. wrote:

> I’ve got all these strings in this object holding regular expressions,  
> and I want to report on them accurately, but all my backslashes are  
> disappearing. Any suggestions?

What does “report on them accurately” entail?

r = /s.d/  
p r

–output:–  
/s.d/

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**Author:** ![Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xeno\_C](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Xeno_C)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hey-how-do-you-make-a-regular-expression-visible/126873/3 "2008-01-23T01:14:44Z")

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7stud – wrote:

> –output:–  
> /s.d/  
> Sorry. My bug. I should have looked closer at my code. Thanks.