From: Dan <dandiebolt@...>
Date: 2009-06-21T17:41:21+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression gurus--help!

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I think the code below could be improved, but try using StringScanner.

require "strscan"
s=3D"abcdefgh"
ss =3D StringScanner.new(s)

until ss.eos?
=A0 a=3Dss.scan(/[a-z]{3}/)
=A0 puts a
=A0 ss.pos=3Dss.pos()-2 unless ss.eos?
end

output:

abc
bcd
cde
def
efg
fgh

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