From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-08-22T06:43:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question

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Xavier Noria wrote:

>On Thursday 21 August 2003 13:23, dblack@superlink.net wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Something like this (tweaked as needed) should work:
>>
>>  irb(main):006:0> str
>>  => "\"Guido van Rossum\", \"Larry Wall\", \"Matz\""
>>  irb(main):007:0> str.scan(/".+?"/)
>>  => ["\"Guido van Rossum\"", "\"Larry Wall\"", "\"Matz\""]
>>    
>>
>
>Harry asked for support for \"s inside strings as well. For that a bit 
>more of work is needed:
>
>    test = '>>"Guido", "Larry", "Matz", "foo \"bar\""<<'
>    puts test.scan(/"(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"/)
>
>gives
>
>    "Guido"
>    "Larry"
>    "Matz"
>    "foo \"bar\""
>
>  
>
Thanks to both of you.  I like that a lot better than the long one from 
MRE that Mike posted, but I guess I'll have to try some complex cases to 
see that it works 100%.

Cheers,

Harry O.



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Xavier Noria wrote:<br>
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  <pre wrap="">On Thursday 21 August 2003 13:23, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dblack@superlink.net">dblack@superlink.net</a> wrote:

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    <pre wrap="">Something like this (tweaked as needed) should work:

  irb(main):006:0&gt; str
  =&gt; "\"Guido van Rossum\", \"Larry Wall\", \"Matz\""
  irb(main):007:0&gt; str.scan(/".+?"/)
  =&gt; ["\"Guido van Rossum\"", "\"Larry Wall\"", "\"Matz\""]
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Harry asked for support for \"s inside strings as well. For that a bit 
more of work is needed:

    test = '&gt;&gt;"Guido", "Larry", "Matz", "foo \"bar\""&lt;&lt;'
    puts test.scan(/"(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"/)

gives

    "Guido"
    "Larry"
    "Matz"
    "foo \"bar\""

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Thanks to both of you.&nbsp; I like that a lot better than the long one from
MRE that Mike posted, but I guess I'll have to try some complex cases
to see that it works 100%.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Harry O.<br>
<br>
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