From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2006-06-02T11:45:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching Question

mitchell wrote:
> If I had the text "{ hello \\} there }", what regex could I use to get 
> "hello } there" back? I'm really stumped on this one.

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but is this close?

s = "{ hello \\} there }"
a = s.scan(/ \{ (( \\ \} | [^}] )*) \} /x).map {|match| match[0].strip }
a[0].gsub!("\\}", "}")
p a[0] #=> "hello } there"

Cheers,
Dave