From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-06-25T04:31:57+09:00
Subject: Re: CAN find appropriate regexp ;-))

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, D T wrote:

> /"(?:[^\\"]+|\\.)+"/  # did you see the different? :-)

/usr/home/howardat > irb

irb(main):001:0> '"an escaped\" quote"' =~ /"((?:[^\\"]+|\\.)+)"/ && puts("(#{$1})")
(an escaped\" quote)
=> nil

irb(main):002:0> '"an escaped\\\" quote"' =~ /"((?:[^\\"]+|\\.)+)"/ && puts("(#{$1})")
(an escaped\\)
=> nil

this doesn't seem to work?

-a
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