From: Oliver Andrich <oliver.andrich@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T07:47:34+09:00
Subject: Question concerning multiline regexps and best practice

Hi,

I am currently moving an application from Python to Ruby for a training 
purpose and to learn Ruby. Inside this application I am parsing text 
files delivered by news agencies. These follow more or less a 
specification developed by the IPTC consortium. But back to the 
question. :)

At the momemt I use a concatenation of strings as an input for the 
Regexp, but I asked myself wether I can use a HERE document, as it would 
  make things a lot clearer without all the these single and double 
quotes around strings. But sadly inside a HERE document, the \n at the 
end of a line are used by the regexp. Is it possible to write a HERE 
document or something like that with \n inside, but afterwards the \n 
the source are skipped?

Or may be there is an even better way to do it. I even think about 
writing a bunch of methods to parse all the stuff without a regex.

Best regards,
Oliver