From: domingo@... (Domingo Alvarez Duarte) Date: 2003-08-19T20:03:28+09:00 Subject: Strscan ruby 1.8 why this doesn't work ? I have been using strscan till version 0.65 and it was working with a code like this but now trying to upgrade to ruby 1.8 it doesn't, is there a bug in strscan or I misunderstood it ? I expect to find a match for the regular expression but it doesn't. #---- code start here require 'strscan' SSI_search_re = /|\[\)(.+?)\(\]/m def parse(html) ret_var = '' ssc = StringScanner.new(html) ret_var << "\n0print(' xxx start scanner zzz ')\n" while ssc.scan(SSI_search_re) do ret_var << "\n1print([}#{ssc.pre_match}{])\n" if ssc[1] ret_var << ' :: ' + ssc[1] else ret_var << "\n2print(#{ssc[2]})\n" end end ret_var << "\n3print([}#{ssc.rest}{])\n" ret_var << "\n4print(' vvv end scanner kkk ')\n" end res = parse('Hello [)Domingo(] !') puts res #---- code end here