From: Curt Sampson <cjs@...>
Date: 2002-04-26T19:12:05+09:00
Subject: Parsing Repeating Regexp Matches


I've got a string like this:

    "{foo} {bar} {something else} {and so on}"

And I want to parse it into an array that looks like this:

    ["foo", "bar", "something else", "and so on"]

I can't seem to figure out the clever way of doing this in Ruby. Can
anyone help me?

I tried to do it with a repeating regexp match along the lines of
"({[^}]+} ?)+", but if it's possible to do it that way, the exact method
is eluding me.

BTW, this this is user input, so no evals or anything like that, please.

cjs
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