From: GianFranco Bozzetti <gf.bozzetti@...>
Date: 2010-04-20T23:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: exclude a word or a phrase


"Shuaib Zahda" <shuaib.zahda@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1d6e0a96aa6e168091bdabb7c3fbf359@ruby-forum.com...
> Dear all
>
> I am trying to exclude certain text from whole text using regular
> expression but the i cannot get it working. I am using this to get the
> text between the matches and not the match itself
>
> for example, I have to process output of SVN DIFF and look through it
>
> Index: filename1
> ==============
> text
> text
> text
> text
> text
> text
> Index: filename2
> ==============
> text
> text
> text
> text
> Index: filename3
> ==============
> text
> text
>
> I want to count how many changed lines in each file, I am thinking of
> getting the text between the lines of ========= which actually my target
>
> i tried to use /[^=]+/ and it does  not work because it will exclude
> statements with equal signs as well which is not my aim
>
> any idea
>
> thanks
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>
The regexp  /^\=+$/  will match a whole line of '=' as in:

re = /^\=+$/
count = 0
section = 1
DATA.each_line do |row|
    if(re =~ row) then
        printf("section %d has %d records\n", section, count)
        count = 0
        section +=1
    else count +=1
    end # if
end # while
exit(0)
__END__
text1-
text2=
text3-
==========
text4
text5
==========

Hth gfb