From: Dany Cayouette <danyc@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T07:25:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp question

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:57:19 -0400
Dany Cayouette <danyc@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

> 
> > But for further clarification:
> > How should 'a;b\\;;c' be split?
> Guess is that it should be
>  ["a", "b\", nil, "c"]
Sorry... I meant 
  ["a", "b\\", nil, "c"]  where b\\ would utimately become b\ when the escape chars are process in the data portion
> 
> characters escaped by backslash at semi-colon, colon and backslash i.e.
> 
> ; => \;   : => \:  \ => \\
> 
> > If backslashs can be escaped (and you'd want that because otherwise you 
> > can't have a field "b\" its more difficult.
> > 
Didn't think about that one... I thought this was simple and the problem was my lack of programming experience...

Dany