From: rpheath <rpheath@...>
Date: 2006-12-08T12:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help with a regexp

Thanks for the reply.  I'm relatively new to regular expressions, and
misinterpretted the ^s and $s.  I was thinking they were for that
specific check, so it was either the first string "|" (or) the second
string.

Here's sample text that would be passed into it.
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<p>This is the first sentence.  Now I'll post a code snippet:</p>

<pre>
def strip_blocks(text)
  text.gsub([regex],'')
end
</pre>

<p>This is another sentence before the block quote.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>This is a quote</p>
</blockquote>

<p>This is one more sentence</p>
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What I would like to have left is this:

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<p>This is the first sentence.  Now I'll post a code snippet:</p>

<p>This is another sentence before the block quote.</p>

<p>This is one more sentence</p>
----------------------

Hopefully that helps.  Sorry the question is not organized and kind of
basic, but I'm new to this.  Thanks again for any help.