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Created June 20, 2019 04:54
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Escape backslashes in text
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replaceslash.rb
lines = File.readlines('./foo.txt', 'r')
File.open('./foo_formatted.txt', 'w') do |f|
lines.each do |line|
newline = line.gsub("\\", "\\\\\\\\")
f << newline
end
end
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Edit this code with ./foo.txt to be your text file
Make ./foo_formatted.text whatever you want to write the file to

ruby ./replaceslash.rb

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