From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T06:41:50+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp: zero-width match for PRECEDING atom

Hello,

Thank you everybody  for the answers. it seems to work perfectly.

emmanuel

On Saturday 07 December 2002 16:59, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:43:06 +0900,
>
> Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
> > 	I'm looking for the pattern which is (?<!pattern) in perl and \@<! in
> > vim for ruby, but it seems not to exist (while some other (?:), (?=) (?!)
> > sequences do exist).
>
> Currently, lookbehind is not implemented.  Oniguruma RE engine
> has it and will be used in future.
>
> > 	Any alternatives? Does it actually exist?
> >
> > 	What i would like to do: split this string:
> > "/home/emmanuel / /home/emmanuel/my\\ dir\\ with\\ spaces"
> >
> > so that I get:
> > ["/home/emmanuel", "/", "/home/emmanuel/my\\ dir\\ with\\ spaces"]
>
> string.scan(/(?:\\ |[^ ])+/)