From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-04-20T04:30:40+09:00
Subject: Re: line breaks in multiline regexp

I reposted by earlier response, but Dan's suggestion might be closer  
to what you want.
-Rob

On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:20 PM, Daniel Finnie wrote:

> 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/.
>>
>>
>