From: Daniel Finnie <dan@...>
Date: 2008-04-19T11:20:54+09:00
Subject: Re: line breaks in multiline regexp

Hi,

I see that Rob posted a response to this but his email came thru blank
for me so I will answer again.  Hopefully I'm not repeating his info.

"\n" is a line break and only a line break.  So to detach those lines
you would do:
s = s.split(/\n{3}/)
s[0] #=> a looongtest...many spaces...followed by 3 empty lines, etc.
s[1] #=> this line must be detached...

Dan

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Andrey Chaschev <chaschev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! I really want to know how to denote line breaks in multiline regexp.
>
>  The problem is that \s is not only a line break.
>
>  I.e. how to parse this in a general way?
>
>  s=<<HERE
>  a  loooong-loooong text with
>  MANY    spaces and *single* line breaks
>  followed by three empty lines
>
>
>   this line must be detached from the previous
>  HERE
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>  --
>  Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>