From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-06-13T05:01:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16453] Re: regex: all but one

Hi Wayne,

/[^"]+/

works!

Maybe you could explain "negated character class"? I thought "^" means
"beginning of a line or string".

Thank you very much.

Tobi



Wayne Blair schrieb:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tobias Reif" <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:40 PM
> Subject: [ruby-talk:16448] Re: regex: all but one
> 
> > please excuse me, I found the solution:
> > .*|\n*
> >
> > thx, Tobi
> >
> > Tobias Reif schrieb:
> > >
> > > Hi;
> > >
> > > how can I express the following in a regex:
> > > "all possible characters, including newlines and carriage returns, but
> > > no quotes"
> > >
> > > this doesn't work:
> > > (.|\n|\"{0})*
> > >
> > > Or maybe just:
> > > "all possible characters including newlines"
> > > (.|\n)*
> > > doesn't work either
> > >
> > > Tobi
> > >
> Hi,
> 
> How about a negated character class:
> 
> /[^"]+/m
> 
> Wayne

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