From: Alexandre Mutel <alexandre_mutel@...>
Date: 2009-11-19T23:33:14+09:00
Subject: Re: How to strip ruby comments in a ruby line of code?

Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
> I'm still only learning regular expressions (I'll do another shameless 
> plug for rubular.com here), but you could do this:
> string = string.match(/^.*#).to_s[0...-1]
> 
> Yes, it's a poor solution, but should you have nothing else, it'll do.

the problem with your solution is that this line of code will remove 
valid code :
   myvar_s = "#{myvar}"

The problem is to handle correctly string escape sequence... it's 
possible, but it requires much more work... I just want to know if 
someone else did this?!
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