From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2002-11-14T15:39:09+09:00
Subject: regex help

Using ruby 1.7.3 (2002-10-12) [i386-mswin32] on Win XP (Home)

Trying to creat a regex which will match a single-quoted string.
My first attempt 'almost' works:  /\'.*?\'/

But then I also want it to match single-quoted strings which have embedded
single quotes.
To embed, you can escape a single quote by putting another single quote just
before it.
For example :

m = /\'.*?\'/.match(%Q{This is a 'single ''quoted'' string' with only one
match})
puts m[0]             #                              ^          ^
                           #          These are two single quotes and not a
double quote


I want this to print:  'single ''quoted'' string' .
But I am getting:     'single '

Please help.
TIA

-- shanko