From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-07-28T22:54:25+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?
>
Are you expecting something like this,

str = "test,,,test"
p str.scan(/,,/) #[",,"]

to give you [",,",",,"]     ?

Harry


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