From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-06-12T07:08:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression problem

sujeet kumar wrote:

> str = "<font color=#008000>www.<b>ruby</b>central.com/ -  4k - </font><nobr>a"
> temp.scan(/(#008000>)(^(</font>))*(</font>)/) {|w| print "#{w} \n" }

You can use the following regular expression (which isn’t very flexible):

/#008000>(.*?)</font>/

That’ll slurp up anything from the end of the <font> to the beginning of
the </font>, so to speak.

> But this gives error
> Reg.rb:4: warning: Object#type is deprecated; use Object#class

That’s a warning, and it’s unrelated to your matching,
        nikolai

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