From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-01-07T13:17:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Oniguruma lookbehind question

Hi --

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, K.Kosako wrote:

> Is this pattern work for you?
>
> str =  %Q{abc def "ghi jkl" mno}
> re3 = /((?<=")[^"]+(?="))|([\S&&[^"]]+)/
> p str.scan(re3)     #=> [[nil, "abc"], [nil, "def"], ["ghi jkl", nil], [nil, 
> "mno"]]

Sorry -- I tested that accidentally with an old 1.9.0.  Yes, with
today's I do get the same as you.

(And I also understand why it's choosing the right-hand alternate :-)
See later posts in thread.)


David

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