From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-06-03T16:39:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching Question

2006/6/2, mitchell <fs8206@yahoo.com>:
> 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 guess you are trying to extract this string from a larger one.  Try this:

s.scan %r<\{((?:\\.|[^\\}])*)\}> do puts $1.strip.gsub(/\\(.)/, '\\1') end

or - without stripping the white space:

s.scan %r<\{((?:\\.|[^\\}])*)\}> do puts $1.gsub(/\\(.)/, '\\1') end

HTH

robert

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