From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2006-12-11T18:43:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp/scan question

Carlos wrote:

> 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
                     ^
better with '?', to make it not greedy :).