Remove double quotes from string

Question

I\'m trying to grab data from a MySQL database and use Ruby to reformat it into a flat text file. Some of my MySQL data contains double quotes like so:

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Answer 1

This will do it if you don't want to modify s:

new_s = s.gsub /"/, '|'

If you do want to modify s:

s.gsub! /"/, '|'