From: Derek Wyatt <derek@...>
Date: 2005-08-22T06:52:18+09:00
Subject: regex multiline weirdness

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This one's got me stumped.

I'm trying to rip out incomplete HTML tags from the end of a
string... here's an example:

Here is a string with <a\nhref=http://somewhere.com/and/then

Note that there is a newline in there.  So i try something simple, like:

~  str.sub(/<[^>]*?$/m, "")

but it doesn't do squat.  Interestingly enough, i tried the
following in perl, which i think is the direct translation:

~  $str =~ s/<[^>]*?$//s

and it works just fine.

Anyone know how to get this to work in ruby?

Thanks,
D

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Derek Wyatt - C++ / Ruby / Unix Programmer
http://derekwyatt.org
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