From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-06-24T07:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: can't find appropriate regexp

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:25:56 +0000, ahoward wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> 
>> Is there anyone who know how to do the *reject* thing ?
> 
> (?!pattern) rejects.

Ok.. I think I solved it.. tell me if it works ?

 
> cat q2.rb
def extract_quotes(str)
        tmp = str.scan(/[^\\](\\\\)*"(.*?[^\\](\\\\)*)"/)
        tmp.collect { |res| res[1] }
end

#s = %Q{a "b" ."c." .."d.." ..."e..." ...."f...."}.gsub(/\./, "\\")
#p extract_quotes(s)

p extract_quotes('foo "foobar";')
p extract_quotes('bar "foo" "bar";')
p extract_quotes('fob "foo \"bar\"";')
>

> ruby q2.rb
["foobar"]
["foo", "bar"]
["foo \\\"bar\\\""]
>


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Simon Strandgaard