From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2006-12-11T18:37:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp/scan question

Peter Szinek wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I need to match a chunk of code like this:
> 
> ....
> ....
> #begin here
> ...}
> ......end
> ...}
> ......}
> .....end
> ...
> ...
> 
> I need to match from "the #begin here" up to the n-th closing token 
> (i.e. '}' or 'end'). n can be arbitrary (let's consider that it is 
> meaningful, i.e. there are no more '}' + 'end's than n.

n = 4
text =~ /#begin(.*(\}|end)){#{n}}/m

?

(not tested).