From: gm@... (George Moschovitis)
Date: 2004-07-04T21:22:43+09:00
Subject: Regular expression question

Hello everyone!

I have a question regarding regular expressions. Let me explain
with an example. I have the string:

"{b}Text{/b} kokoko {b}Lalal{/b}"

and i want to convert it to this string

"<b>Text</b> kokoko <b>Lalal</b>"

if I use the following gsub:

str.gsub!(/\{b\}(.*)\{\/b\}/, '<b>\1</b>')

I get:

"<b>Text{/b} kokoko {b}Lalal</b>"

not what I want. If I use

str.gsub!(/\{b\}([^\{]*)\{\/b\}/, '<b>\1</b>')

I get the correct anwser, but i dont like this
regular expression. Does ruby support an equivalent
to the /g option that perl provides? If not is there
a workaround? I would like to use something like:

str.gsub!(/\{b\}(.*)\{\/b\}/g, '<b>\1</b>')

Any help will be apreciated!

George Moschovitis

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