From: phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-07-13T05:50:42+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions help

Axel wrote:

> str = 'hi hello  "hello world" hey yo'
> str.gsub!( / \"  [^\"]*  \" /x ) {|e|  e[1..-2].gsub(' ', "\007") }
> result = str.scan( / [\w\007]+ /x ).map {|e|  e.gsub("\007", " ") }
> p result

     str = 'hi hello  "hello world" hey yo'
     p str.scan(/(".*")|(\w+)/).flatten.compact

  => ["hi", "hello", "hello world", "hey", "yo"]

Greedy matching to the rescue!