From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2004-09-19T07:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Method improvement request .--

On Sep 18, 2004, at 5:04 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> What about something like:
>
> def parse1(chunk)
> 	if chunk =~ / ^([^-A-Za-z0-9]*) # pre-match
> 			   (.*) # middle

Sorry, that probably needs to be:

(.*?)

My bad.

James Edward Gray II

> 			   ([^-A-Za-z0-9]*)$ # post-match
> 			  /x
> 		a, b, c = $1, $2, $3
> 	end
> end
>
> Does that give you some ideas?
>
> James Edward Gray II
>