From: Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T06:30:38+09:00
Subject: Re: My regexp stupidity needs assistance before loose all my hair!

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> Let me painfully honest: I hate parsing, especially w/ regexp, and I don't 
> care if it's because I stupid and suck at it. It shouldn't have to be this 
> hair pulling! Anyway... Can some one please give the regular expression to 
> match the first square bracket's contents. In this case it would be "Hello".
> 
> s = <<-EOS
> [Hello]
> This [b]is[b.] a test.
> [Hello.]
> EOS

s =~ /\[([^\]]*)\]/
puts $1

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