From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-24T00:38:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Strings and member-operators

Hi --

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, George Ogata wrote:

> David Alan Black wrote:
>
> > Hi --
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Dossy wrote:
> >
> >> On 2002.07.23, David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:
> >> >   class String
> >> >     def stripQuotes
> >> >       /^("?)(.*?)(\1)$/.match(self)[2].strip
> >> >     end
> >> >   end
>
> Is there an advantage to using .*? there instead of .*?  (That second '?'
> there is punctuation, not part of the regex).  Or would there be no
> difference at all, assuming there were no newlines in the matched string?
> Speaking of which, isn't it an idea to turn on the mutliline flag?  Or use
> \A...\z? You could butcher something like:
>
> "Some quote"
>    --- Some guy.

Hmmmm...  Like the other thing Dossy pointed out (putting () around
\1), I think the ? was left over from some intermediate version where
it mattered.

OK, so now we're looking at:

  /^("?)(.*)\1$/.match(self)[2].strip


I hadn't addressed the whole multi-line issue -- it wasn't in Dossy's
test suite :-)


David

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