From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-06-24T06:00:38+09:00
Subject: Re: can't find appropriate regexp

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:31:03 +0200, Patrick Zesar wrote:

> spamassassin blocked my previous post :-((((
> copy below:

I see your previous post, me don't understand ??
 

> ---- start of example-lines ----
> foo "foobar";
> bar "foo" "bar";
> fob "foo \"bar\"";
> ---- end of example-lines ----
> ["foobar"]
> ["foo","bar"]
> ["foo \"bar\""]


You want to *reject* if there is an odd number of slashes
and *include* if there is zero or an equal number of slashes?



The best I could come up with... it doesn't work :-(

inp = %Q{a "b" ."c." .."d.." ..."e..." ...."f...."}
s = inp.gsub(/\./, "\\")
result = s.scan(/(\\\\)*"(.*?)(\\\\)*"/)
p result 
#=> [[nil, "b", nil], [nil, "c\\", nil], ["\\\\", "d", "\\\\"], ["\\\\", "e\\", "\\\\"], ["\\\\", "f", "\\\\"]]


Is there anyone who know how to do the *reject* thing ?

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Simon Strandgaard