From: Diego Virasoro <Diego.Virasoro@...>
Date: 2006-10-20T01:00:15+09:00
Subject: newbie: Strings and RegExp

Hello,
given an instance of String, str, how do you select/copy the section of
the string between two given strings START_STRING and END_STRING?

I used something like:
   re = /#{STRING_BEFORE}(regular_expression)#{STRING_AFTER}/
   str =~ re
   middle = $1
where regular_expression is supposed to be a regular expression
selecting any character (digits, space, newline, character,
anything...).

Is this the right method? And what should I use for regular_expression?
I tried (.|\n)* but I get a "BUS error". Any other way?

Or maybe is there a method which does what I need?

(Note: I am using Ruby 1.6.4 on Solaris)

Thank you

Diego