From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T06:29:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp question

On Thursday 30 September 2004 23:15, Mark Probert wrote:
> Hi, Rubyists.
>
> What is the best way of attacking field split on ';' when the string looks
> like:
>
>   s = 'a;b;c\;;d;'
>   s.split(/???;/)
>   => ["a", "b", "c\;", "d"]
>
> Or is it best to use s.each_byte and do it by hand?

How about something ala

irb(main):015:0> "aa;bbb\\;;abc;;d\\\\;e;".scan(/(?:\\[^.]|[^;])*;/)
=> ["aa;", "bbb\\;;", "abc;", ";", "d\\\\;", "e;"]

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Simon Strandgaard