From: Patrick Zesar <jonnypichler@...>
Date: 2003-06-25T01:10:16+09:00
Subject: CAN find appropriate regexp ;-))

> str = <<'EOF'
> foo "foobar"
> bar "foo" "bar";
> fob "foo \"bar\"";
> EOF
> str.each_line{ |line|
>   p line.scan(/"(?:[^\\"]|\\.)+"/).collect! {|e| e.sub!(/^"(.*)"$/, '\1')}
> }
>
> It seems to me that works.

thanx - that's perfect

i wasn't aware of the '?:'-thing - i'm still not sure what it does exactly -
but it's working ;-))

thanx again,
patrick