From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T13:04:16+09:00
Subject: Re: words[0] ! =~ /#*/ doesn't match "#aaaaaaaaa"

Use /^#/ and not /#*/ -- these are regular expressions, not
globbing or shell wildmat ...

-- Dossy


On 2002.06.08, Peter Booth <pbooth@nocoincidences.com> wrote:
> 
> I am attempting to parse the following file and ignore lines that begin with
> a #
> but my regexp doesn't seem to match correctly. Can anyone tell me the
> "right" way
> to match a string that begins with a # character?
> 
> Peter Booth
> 
> 
>  IO.foreach("C:/apps/workspace/web/build/zoneinfo.db") do |line|
>          words = line.split("|")
>          if words.length == 3 && words[0] != "realm" && words[0] ! =~ /#*/
>                realm, zone, hostlist = words[0], words[1], words[2]
> 
> 
> 
> qatest|dmz|nbigqsa02
> qatest|ndmz|nmigqsa06
> #qatest|tools|nycmqsa01,nycmqsa02
> #qatest|ficc|nwwpqsa01
> 
> 

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