From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-08-13T01:06:05+09:00
Subject: Re: replacing values in some files: line endings etc

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:30:22PM +0900, Tobias Reif wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on Windows, I need to replace some values in a file; see the program below.
[...]
> 2. gsub
> 
> How could I match a longer string, but replace only a part of it?
> eg ~
>   string.gsub! /<(embed|object).+?width="\d+"/, "width=\"#{w}\""
> ... but the <object etc should stay.

(untested)

string.gsub! /(<(?:embed|object).+?width=)"\d+"/, "\1\"#{w}\""

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