From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2002-06-10T21:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: words[0] ! =~ /#*/ doesn't match "#aaaaaaaaa"

On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 05:57, Peter Booth 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]
> 


For easier reading of the code I suggest doing like the following

IO.foreach(.............) do line
	next if line =~ /^#/

        do_the_rest
end

Then you can ignore the #-lines in every line of code after the first
line.

/Erik
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