From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2007-04-18T01:40:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression help 2

On 2007-04-17, Guest <james@dimsum.tv> wrote:

> have some strings such as:
>
> blahblah /* comment */
> blahblah
> blah blah
> blah blah blah /* comment etc */
>
> And i want just the blahblah bit, not any comments ...

>>> Script starts 
#!/bin/sh

ruby -wnle 'puts %r{^(.*?)(\s*/\*.*\*/\s*)?$}.match($_).captures[0]' <<EOF
Mary /* a girl */ 
had a 
little /* but no less valuable */
lamb
EOF
<<< Script ends 

>>> Output starts 
Mary
had a
little
lamb
<<< Output ends 

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty