From: Glenn Jackman <glennj@...>
Date: 2009-09-02T22:30:12+09:00
Subject: Re: regex issue confusing

At 2009-09-02 08:02AM, "Brian Candler" wrote:
>  Ahmet Kilic wrote:
> > This is OK
> > line[/\sclass\s(\w+)/, 1]
> > but
> > line[/\s#include\s(\w+)/, 1]
> > this is not.
> > 
> > why??? please help.
>  
>  "Not OK" by what definition?
>  
>  Try posting an irb transcript which demonstrates your problem with 
>  sample data. It looks OK to me:
>  
> >> line = "foo #include bar baz"
> => "foo #include bar baz"
> >> line[/\s#include\s(\w+)/, 1]
> => "bar"

require 'mind_reading'

Perhaps the line is something like:  #include <stdio.h>
in which case the angle bracket gets in the way.

Ahmet, do you want:

    line[/\s*#include\s+['"<]?(\w+)/, 1]  # => "stdio"

?

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