From: Pistos Christou <jesusrubsyou.5.pistos@...>
Date: 2006-03-11T00:08:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Small regexp question

francisrammeloo@hotmail.com wrote:
> But I want to exclude forward class declarations ( class MyClass; )
> 
> So I changed my pattern to:
> 
>     line =~ /^\s*class\s+(\w+)\s*[^;]/    --> don't match if line ends
> with ";"
> 
> But it doesn't work... Why?
> 
> I ended up using:  if line !~ /;/ and line =~ /^\s*class\s+(\w+)/

How does it not match?  Can you show several lines of an irb session 
demonstrating matches and non-matches?

Pistos

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