From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-06-15T09:17:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Characters and strings oddness

Stefan Kruger wrote:
> line = ' a string "properly \"quoted\" that ends" here '
> quoted = '"properly \"quoted\" that ends"'
> 
> If Ruby had the same regexes as Perl, I'd say something like
> 
> line.gsub!(/^\s*(\".*?(?<!\\)\")\s*/, '')
> 
> and have my quoted string pop out in $1. In fact, TextMate groks that
> regex, too.

How is that supposed to work? With the initial anchor there's no way 
that regexp would ever match even if ruby supported look-behind. I 
suggest this: /"((?:\\.|[^\\])+)"/

Daniel