From: Michael Schuerig <michael@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T00:16:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting a string with escapable separator?

Gavin Kistner wrote:
[snip]

> Note that the above does not account for the case of:
> Hello \\,World
> (where an escaped backslash is intended to end the first entry)
> but if that was important, that's just a matter of a bit of odd/even
> backslash counting.

That's a thing I'd need. Opportunistically, I'll go with William's
suggestion from a sibling post.

> Something like (untested):
> re = /(.+?)(?:#{escape_char ? "([^\\#{escape_char}](\\#{escape_char}\
> \#{escape_char})*)" : ''}#{separator}|$)/

Thanks.

Michael

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