From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2011-02-17T08:22:52+09:00
Subject: Re: regex simplifier?

> %r{(?<re>#{float})#{whitespace}(?<op>[+-])#{whitespace}(?<im>#{float})i}
>
> But the kicker is still how to remember that \s is white space, not \w.
> And we've been forced to do some tip toeing around the complexities of
> regex in order to make it readable.
>
> I had thought of a regex creator helper
>
> float = reg { optional(/[-+]/) + 'DIGIT+ \. DIGIT+' }

I just found something related, for followers:

posix characters are apparently embedded in there:

[:blank:]

like
>> ' a '.scan /[[:blank:]]/
=> [" ", " "]
>> ' a '.scan /[^[:blank:]]/
=> [" ", " "]

ref: http://psoug.org/reference/regexp.html

Though I still wouldn't be averse to something like
Regexp::DIGIT => '\d'

So one can do "#{Regexp::DIGIT}*"

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