From: L7 <jesse.r.brown@...>
Date: 2006-09-14T01:35:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question.

Jeff Cohen wrote:
>
> My eyes glaze over with these kinds of expressions, but this might help:
>
> http://www.regularexpressions.info/examplesprogrammer.html
>
> Scroll down the section on "Comments".  They seem to have a simpler
> solution, I think the trick is to be able to use . as matching newlines.
>

I dont think it applies to this directly. I didnt explicitly mention,
but the processing is happening on a line-by-line basis. In order to
remove all commenting in the above manner I would first have to read
the file as a string, strip, split on newline then parse code.

> And you can turn on newline matching in Ruby by putting an "m" after the
> expression:
>
> /my_pattern_here/m
>
> Hope this helps...?
>
> Jeff
> softiesonrails.com
> 
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