From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-12-06T11:37:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp imxo - does 'x' work?

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:

[snip]
D> > should this not work ?
D> >
D> >   irb(main):001:0> %r{
D> >   irb(main):002:0/ foo
D> >   irb(main):003:0/ #foo
D> >   irb(main):004:0/ bar
D> >   irb(main):005:0/ #bar
D> >   irb(main):006:0/ }
D> >   /\nfoo\n#foo\nbar\n#bar\n/
D>
D> That's working, isn't it?
[snip]

i guess.  it looked like the comments were being included in the regex... i
guess they are not.

since ruby's comments continue till line's end, i guess there is no way to
embed comments in a single line regex?  or is there?

-a

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