From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-10-03T06:13:02+09:00
Subject: Re: split without lookbehind

On 10/2/05, Alex Fenton <alex@deleteme.pressure.to> wrote:
[snip]
> but there's no lookbehind in Ruby - I wonder if someone could suggest a neat
> ruby alternative.

with oniguruma this works:

'foo/bar // baz/qux'.split(/(?<!\/)\/(?!\/)/)
# => ["foo", "bar // baz", "qux"]


I am not sure exactly how you want it splitted.
How about this one?

'a/b//c///d////e/////f'.split(/\/(?!\/)/)
# => ["a", "b/", "c//", "d///", "e////", "f"]


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Simon Strandgaard