From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-08-26T22:36:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Regexp question

>>>>> "T" == =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Torsten R=FCger?= <ISO-8859-1> writes:

>> name.sub!(/\$/,"\\\$")

 It's best to use ''

Tpigeon% ruby
name = "com.foo.Outer$Inner.class"
name.sub!(/\$/, '\\$')
p name
^D
"com.foo.Outer\\$Inner.class"
pigeon% 

T>  line = "option.name = "value 1" "value 2" "

 Well, you can write

pigeon% ruby
line = 'option.name = "value 1" "value 2"'
if /=(.*)/ =~ line
   p $1
end

if /=/ =~ line    
   p $'
end
^D
" \"value 1\" \"value 2\""
" \"value 1\" \"value 2\""
pigeon% 


T> 2 an expession that I could use with split that gets an array [ 
T> "option.name","value 1" , "value 2"]

 Well, the problem is that you have space between "" and #split is not
 really adapted for this

 You can do

pigeon% ruby
line = 'option.name = "value 1" "value 2"'
if /\A[\w.]+\s*=\s*".*"/ =~ line && array = line.split(/\s*=\s*/, 2)
   array[1] = array[1].scan(/"([^"]*)"/)
   array.flatten!
else
   array = []
end
p array
^D
["option.name", "value 1", "value 2"]
pigeon% 



Guy Decoux