From: Peter Bailey <pbailey@...>
Date: 2007-09-18T22:28:12+09:00
Subject: Re: finding string matches, in order, in a file

William James wrote:
> Peter Bailey wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've got files I want to parse. I'm using a string scan routine that
>> populates an array. I need to pull the entries of that array out, in
>> order, eventually. I'm getting an array all right, but, I don't
>> understand its order. The first instance in the string, meaning the
>> whole file, is way down the list in the array. The first entry in the
>> array is an entry that's 300 lines deep into the file. Why isn't the
>> first instance in the string, the file, the first entry in the array?
> 
> The file may have multiple copies of some entries, and
> your regexp may be botched.
> 
>>
>> xmlfile.scan(/<issueList>\n<issue code=\"[A-Z]{3}\">(.*)<\/issue>\n?/)
> 
> I don't like the looks of that regular expression.  Try this one.
> 
> /<issueList>\n<issue code="[A-Z]{3}">(.*?)<\/issue>\n?/m


Thanks, William. I tried your regex, but, I'm still getting the first 
entry as one that's 300 lines deep into the file. In fact, the results 
look exactly the same to me.

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