From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-07-13T06:04:52+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions help

Hi --

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, phlip wrote:

>>     str = 'hi hello  "hello world" hey yo'
>>     p str.scan(/(".*")|(\w+)/).flatten.compact
>>
>>  => ["hi", "hello", "hello world", "hey", "yo"]
>> 
>> Greedy matching to the rescue!
>
> Also, non-capturing groups help us remove the .flatten.compact nonsense:
>
>    p str.scan(/(?:".*")|(?:\w+)/)
>
> => ["hi", "hello", "\"hello world\"", "hey", "yo"]
>
> I'm not sure why one version capture the "" marks and the other did not...

They both did :-) (See my previous post.)


David

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