From: mitchell <none@...>
Date: 2006-06-03T11:31:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching Question

Dave Burt wrote:
> 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

Cool! I didn't think about the | option. That's quite ingenius. Thanks 
:)

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