From: ts Date: 2002-12-08T00:57:15+09:00 Subject: Re: regexp: zero-width match for PRECEDING atom >>>>> "E" == Emmanuel Touzery writes: E> What i would like to do: split this string: E> "/home/emmanuel / /home/emmanuel/my\\ dir\\ with\\ spaces" Not tested string.scan(/(?:[^\\ ]|\\ )+/) Guy Decoux