From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-04-11T02:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: regex: how to negate sequences?

Nobu Nakada wrote:


> irb(main):002:0> '-f-o>o-bar-->' =~ /.*?(?=-->|\z)/; puts $&
> -f-o>o-bar


Thx!

so I would do

irb(main):012:0> '-f-o>o-bar-->' =~ /.*?(?=-->|\z|"|'|\s|\n)/; puts $&
-f-o>o-bar
nil

Can you explain the ?= syntax, or point to it's doc?

I know it gets cheesy, but this *is* a great community :)

Tobi

-- 
http://www.pinkjuice.com/