From: Alexandre Mutel <alexandre_mutel@...>
Date: 2009-11-19T23:53:35+09:00
Subject: Re: How to strip ruby comments in a ruby line of code?

Aldric Giacomoni wrote:

> Actually, no, because regexps are greedy by default, so it'll go to the 
> very last '#' it finds.
> The other solution you got is more elegant, though.. :)
hum, not sure the greedy is helping there:

line = "line = \"\#{args}\""
=> "line = \"\#{args}\""
string = line.match(/^.*#/).to_s[0...-1]
=> "line = "

Expecting is : line = "#{args}"

In order to strip comments using regexp, you need to handle string 
escape.


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