From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2007-10-01T22:12:34+09:00
Subject: Re: regexpression: scanning  a special charachters // ?

kazaam wrote:
> Is there an escape charachter? I tried it so:
>
>       result = overlook.scan(/myoverlook:\/\/\(.+?)\n/m)

That would be correct if you hadn't accidentally escaped the (, too.
A cleaner way would be to use %r{} instead of //, so that / isn't treated as a
special character and you don't need to escape it. Like so:
result = overlook.scan(%r{myoverlook://(.+?)\n}m)


HTH,
Sebastian
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