From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2007-08-29T09:35:17+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub help

On 8/28/07, hurcan solter <hsolter@gmail.com> wrote:
>   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?
This is not a job for regexps. This is a job for a ruby parser.
>  Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>  Hurcan
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