From: Stuart Unsworth <s.unsworth@...>
Date: 2001-07-17T19:07:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17977] Regexp - stripping comments

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Hi,

I'm trying to get the beginning of a line before a comment. A comment is a
semicolon. The problem I'm having is that the semicolons may be in "" which
I want to keep.

For example:

word1 word2 "some text possibly with ;" + __FILE__ + "some more text"  ;
comments 

Any help would be grateful.

Stu
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Stuart Unsworth
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