From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T13:29:07+09:00
Subject: Re: words[0] ! =~ /#*/ doesn't match "#aaaaaaaaa"

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On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 15:57, you 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

Maybe this helps, you are looking for "does not match"

irb(main):001:0> a = ['qatest|dmz|nbigqsa02', 'qatest|ndmz|nmigqsa06', 
'#qatest|tools|nycmqsa01,nycmqsa02', '#qatest|ficc|nwwpqsa01']
["qatest|dmz|nbigqsa02", "qatest|ndmz|nmigqsa06", 
"#qatest|tools|nycmqsa01,nycmqsa02", "#qatest|ficc|nwwpqsa01"]
irb(main):011:0> a.each do |line|
irb(main):012:1* words = line.split('|')
irb(main):013:1> if words.length == 3 && words[0] != 'realm' && words[0] !~ 
/^#/
irb(main):014:2> realm, zone, host_list = words[0], words[1], words[2]
irb(main):015:2> puts "#{realm} #{zone} #{host_list}"
irb(main):016:2> end
irb(main):017:1> end
qatest dmz nbigqsa02
qatest ndmz nmigqsa06

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Signed,
Holden Glova
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