From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-06-15T21:46:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16495] Re: Verify correct lexing of delimited strings

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
> 
> > Could someone knowledgeable in Ruby's parse.y please verify the correct
> > lexing/scanning/tokenizing of general delimited strings exhibited by the
> > code below.
> 
> I'm not a parse.y pro, but I believe you need to take into account
> escaped delimiters:
> 
>    dave[~/tmp 7:30:14] ruby -e 'p %q{aaa\}ddd}' 
>    "aaa}ddd"
> 
I knew I'd missed something. Thanks!

/Robert