From: Ahmet Kilic <ahmedkilic@...>
Date: 2009-09-11T11:47:44+09:00
Subject: Re: regex: multiline

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2009/9/10 Ahmet Kilic <ahmedkilic@gmail.com>:
>>>> end
>>> irb(main):002:0> s[/.*/]
>>>
>> for example;
>> �tpPrev,
>> �tp � � � � : TTokenPrivileges;
>> �token � � �: THandle;
>> �dwRetLen � : DWord;
>> begin
>> ...
>> how can I do it with your code?
>> should I write new regexp for each function?
> 
> No, you simply need to replace the outer match with a call to 
> String#scan.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> robert

If I write this part of code it is seen OK for me,

str.scan(/[^;]+;/) do |var|
    if /\A([^:]+):([^:]+);\z/ =~ var
      names = $1
      type  = $2.strip

      names.split(/,/).each do |name|
        printf "var: type: %-20s name: %-20s\n", type, name.strip
      end
    else
      puts "error with var #{var.inspect}"
    end
  end

but
> No, you simply need to replace the outer match with a call to 
> String#scan.
what is the "replace the outer match" meaning? please explain a bit 
more.

 7stud: I recognize it also. It is not working for me. I am using ruby 
1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]

thanks.

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