From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-08-26T22:40:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Regexp question


----- Original Message -----
From: "Torsten R�ger" <torsten.rueger@firsthop.com>


> Moi,
> I'm new to ruby and even to regular expression, so I fear these might be
> super simple. 2 Questions
>
> I have a string (actually a java inner class file name) like
>  >name = "com.foo.Outer$Inner.class"
>
> and want to replace $ with \$ (for the shell)

name.gsub(/\$/, '\$')

>
> And the other one is with a line (from a config file) like
>  line = "option.name = "value 1" "value 2" "
>
> and I'd like an expression that
> 1 gets me the stuff after the = , and whatever I do the = is always part
> of the result
> 2 an expession that I could use with split that gets an array [
> "option.name","value 1" , "value 2"]

1. value = /=.*$/.match(line)[0]
     (see ri Regexp.match and ri MatchData)

2. value.scan(/"(.*?)"/).flatten  -> ["value 1", "value 2"]

> Thanks
>     Torsten
>

Regards,
Gavin