From: Daniel <lists@...>
Date: 2002-07-04T07:22:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression problems

For a good book on regular expressions, check out Jeffrey Friedells book
on O'Reilley - Mastering Regular Expressions.

You can find this answer, and many more there :)
For Programming Ruby to cover all the regex things, it would take another
book in itself.

Daniel


On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Jonas Bengtsson wrote:

> Hello Nobu,
>
> Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 8:56:22 PM, you wrote:
>
> >   re = /<name: ([a-zA-Z_]+)>\n(.*?)(<name:.*|\z)/m
>
> > Or:
> >   re = /<name: ([a-zA-Z_]+)>\n(.*?)(?=<name:|\z)/m
> >   while match = re.match(unprocessed)
> >     name = match[1]
> >     content = match[2]
> >     unprocessed = match.post_match      # <--
> >     puts "MATCH", "name:#{name}", "content:#{content}"
> >   end
>
> Thanks!
> I didn't see this in Programming Ruby before:
>   re ?
>   Matches zero or one occurrence of re. The *, +, and {m,n} modifiers
>   are greedy by default. Append a question mark to make them minimal.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Jonas
>
> Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
>  - Charles Mingus
>

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