From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T04:44:43+09:00
Subject: [ANN] regexp 0.11    (useful for debugging big regexps)

Debugging regular expressions becomes easier with this package.

Here is a few examples of how to debug regexp's:

bash-2.05b$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'regexp'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> puts /a.{2,4}c/.tree
+-Sequence
  +-Inside set="a"
  +-Repeat greedy{2,4}
  | +-Outside set=U-000A
  +-Inside set="c"
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> puts /[^0-9]/.tree
+-Outside set="0".."9"
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> puts /\w+@\w+\.((com)|(net)|(org))/.tree
+-Sequence
  +-Repeat greedy{1,-1}
  | +-Inside set=["0".."9", "a".."z", "A".."Z", "_"]
  +-Inside set="@"
  +-Repeat greedy{1,-1}
  | +-Inside set=["0".."9", "a".."z", "A".."Z", "_"]
  +-Inside set="."
  +-Group capture=1
    +-Alternation
      +-Group capture=2
      | +-Sequence
      |   +-Inside set="c"
      |   +-Inside set="o"
      |   +-Inside set="m"
      +-Group capture=3
      | +-Sequence
      |   +-Inside set="n"
      |   +-Inside set="e"
      |   +-Inside set="t"
      +-Group capture=4
        +-Sequence
          +-Inside set="o"
          +-Inside set="r"
          +-Inside set="g"
=> nil
irb(main):005:0>


So how do you install this wonderful program...
The recommended way is via RPA..

download-rpa:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=265&release_id=760


rpa update
rpa install rpa-base
rpa install re


sidenode: actually this package is a fullblown regexp engine.. but thats 
another story.

--
Simon Strandgaard