From: Daniel Sheppard <daniels@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T14:22:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex with multiple returns

"boringstuff(returnthisplease)notthis(butthis)dontwantthis(butIdowantthi
snomatterhowmanyparenthiesisthereare)".scan(/\(([^\)]*)\)/)


    ==>[["returnthisplease"], ["butthis"],
["butIdowantthisnomatterhowmanyparenthiesisthereare"]]

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> Is there a Ruby regex that can return all of the following:
> boringstuff(returnthisplease)notthis(butthis)dontwantthis(butI
> dowantthisnomatterhowmanyparenthiesisthereare)
> 
> If I only had one pair of parens, I would just do:
> /[^\(\)]+\((\w+?)\)/
> 
> but for varying amounts I don't know how to do it.
> 
> (Maybe I could group the whole thing in parens and put a + after it - 
> but then it would return the whole thing also - is there a way around 
> this?)
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