From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2005-12-06T16:11:01+09:00
Subject: Re: String split drops the delimiter

On 12/6/05, basi <basi_lio@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> A bit of a problem trying to run your code:
>
> irb(main):369:0> data
> => " This is a declarative sentence. And is this a question? Yes! "
> irb(main):370:0>  data.gsub!(/(?<=[.?!])/, "\n")
> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):370: undefined (?...) sequence: /(?<=[.?!])/
>         from (irb):370
>         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:492
> irb(main):371:0>
>
> Also, let's modify the data a bit, thus:
>
> data = ' "Is this a question?" he asked. "Yes!" she exclaimed.'
>
> I'd like to get the sentences:
>
> "Is this a question?" he asked.
> "Yes!" she exclaimed.
>

data.scan(/(?:"[^"]*?"|[^.?!])*[.?!]\s?/)
#=> [" \"Is this a question?\" he asked. ", "\"Yes!\" she exclaimed."]

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Simon Strandgaard