From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T00:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression question

Hello --

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Firestone, Mark - Technical Support wrote:

> Thanks for the help with the tread questions guys... I have one about (gasp)
> regular expresions.  hate hate hate.
>
> I want to seperate a string of commands seperated by semi-colons...
>
> here's what I have so far by way of a test...
>
> happy = input.scan(/[0-9 a-z]+(?=;)/)
>
> this does what I want, almost.  I only get strings with semicolons AFTER
> them.  This cuts off the last command in the list.. how can I get ALL the
> strings SEPERATED by semicolons.

I would do:

  happy = input.split(';')


David

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