From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-23T12:38:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20152] Re: [q] question about ruby regex

"丞 旦 枢" <cwyang@aratech.co.kr> writes:

> Hi.
> 
> I've been trying to match C-style comment in ruby regex.
> 
> my wrong approach is as follows.
> 
>       case str
>       when /\/\*[^(\*\/)]*\*\//

you could try:

        when %r{/\*.*?\*/}m

The .*? is a non-greedy match of any character, and the 'm' option
allows the match to proceed across line endings.


Dave