From: Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@...>
Date: 2006-06-02T12:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching Question

On 6/1/06, mitchell <fs8206@yahoo.com> 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.

with the new regex engine in ruby 1.9 you can use a lookbehind assertion:

$ ruby19 -e 'p /\{(((?<=\\)\}|[^}])*)\}/.match("{ hello \\} there
}")[1].strip.gsub("\\}","}")'
"hello } there"

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Regards,
Jason
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