From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-07-28T22:21:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding un-escaped characters in scan()

On 7/28/07, Fred Phillips <fophillips1990@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a string that looks like this: "test,,\,test". And I'm trying to
> count the commas which don't follow a \. But when using scan(/[^\\],/) it
> only finds the first comma. I think this is because after scan() has found a
> comma without a backslash, it continues from where it left off, and since
> there's no character before the next comma, it won't match it. Does anyone
> know how to fix it?
>

Works for me:

irb(main):001:0> "test,,\,test".scan(/[^\\],/)
=> ["t,", ",,"]

Todd