From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-12-06T22:30:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Proximity searches in Ruby

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> File::read("test.data").scan  %r{Hello.{0,10}World}im
>
> That would be 10 characters
Huh??
cat test.data && echo "=============================" && cat scan.rb
&& ./scan.rb
Hello World hello **
* world


hello do not find this world
=============================
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
# vim: sw=2 ts=2 ft=ruby expandtab tw=0 nu syn=on:
# file: scan.rb

p File::read("test.data").scan(  %r<Hello.{0,10}World>im )

["Hello World", "hello **\n* world"]

R.