From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-04-19T16:59:52+09:00
Subject: Re: String replacing help

Jeremy Woertink wrote:
> The goal of what I'm trying to do is take a string and insert pipes '|'
> before words that are *not* inside of <a></a>.
> 

Yet you were not able to provide an example of the desired result?


> The words I'm trying to insert the pipe before have a non-breaking space
> tags around them.

Based on *my* interpretation of your description, I think this is what 
you want:

result = str.gsub(/&nbsp;([^<]*)&nbsp;/m, '&nbsp;|\1&nbsp;')

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