From: Seth Kurtzberg <seth@...>
Date: 2003-03-12T04:59:09+09:00
Subject: Re: scanning strings

You can use split with a regular expression.  Or you can use a regular 
expression with defined subexpressions.  Either way you can get the results 
you are looking for.

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:51 pm, MikkelFJ wrote:
> I want to scan a string for breaks. I want to pick both the breaks and the
> text in between.
> If I use String#each I loose the space.
> If I use String#scan, I get into a fairly involved expression with two
> submatches
> where the second submatch is almost exactly the negation of the first
> submatch.
>
> Is it it possible to break a string such that you get a both the match and
> the text before last match, if any?
>
> If not, wouldn't that be a useful feature in Ruby?
>
> One simple example is processing a line at a time, but you want to keep the
> break style of the source text which could be <cr>, <lf> or <cr><lf>.
>
>
> Mikkel

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