From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2002-11-14T16:19:12+09:00
Subject: Re: regex help

Answering my own post .. should have tried harder b4 posting.

 m = /\'.*\'\'.*?\'/.match(%Q{This is a 'single ''quoted'' string' with
'two' matches})
 puts m[0]

Sorry for the noise !

"Shashank Date" <sdate@kc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:qmHA9.17372$jj5.440511@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> 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
>
>
>