From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2002-12-11T13:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Two Perl -> Ruby Questions

"Austin Ziegler" <austin@halostatue.ca> writes:

> There's no identical feature.  Show me the original Perl code.
>
> Austin:
>
> Text::Balance -- from the Parse::RecDescent code. Yes, I'm trying to
> convert Damian's code to Ruby. I need it to help with the
> Spreadsheet::Excel work to add formulas. Except not really being
> familiar with \G zero-width regex; I suspect that most of what he's
> using it for can be simulated with judicious use of Array#scan.

I've run into places where I could have used pos() and \G to achieve
efficiency, for the same reason that the strscan ruby extension
exists.