From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-03-12T11:47:01+09:00
Subject: Re: universal symbol

> my example is
> while(line=f.gets(sep="class#{i}  here will be any text    "))
> ...
> ...
> i+=1
> end

gets() does not let you specify wild cards like * (nor a regex), so the 
short answer is you can't do what you want.

However, you could read the whole file into a variable, and then scan() 
the resulting string for chunks of text that match a regex, like:

/class#\d .*? (?=class)/xms

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