From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-06-18T20:43:50+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub and regex

Stefano Crocco wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Tom Cloyd wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to replace all /\n / with /\n/ in a string, but gsub won't
>> allow a regex as the replacement when a match occurs. I'm getting myself
>> considerably confused about data types and regex, and just plain need
>> some help. Is there some way to do this replacement, using gsub?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> t.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure I understand you. Do you want to replace all newline charactes 
> followed by a space with a single newline character? If so, you don't need 
> regexps at all:
>
> str.gsub("\n ", "\n")
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
>   
Man, this list is absolutely amazing. Here I am programming at 4:30 in 
the morning, and get stuck, and before I can execute my program again, I 
get my problem solved. I think I want to live in Ruby land the rest of 
my life.

And...how could I have forgotten that in "...." \n get understood. Jeez. 
So easy.

Thanks for being there.

t.

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