From: hurcan solter <hsolter@...>
Date: 2007-08-29T07:15:05+09:00
Subject: gsub help

  Hi there;
  this is more of a regexp question but I'de be happy if you help me
since i am doing it in ruby.
  i want to beautify some line by inserting or removing some space
around the operators like = or ==
 so i came up with an expression like;

  line.gsub!(/\s*([=]+)\s*/ ,' \1 ')

But it applies every = on the line ofc, but I want to exclude
expressions between quotation marks ("sth=sth") or regexp (/sth=sth/).
I've tried negated character classes and such to no avail.How can I do
this?
 Any help would be greatly appreciated...
 Hurcan