From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T08:00:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Please recommend a regular expression excluding return character. ..

In other words:

   /#{some_string1}.#{some_string2}/

Cheers,
Daniel.


On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:57:55AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> The '.' doesn't match newlines.
> 
>  $ irb
> >>  "\n" =~ /./
> => nil
> >>  "\n" =~ /\n/
> => 0
> >>  
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:55:18AM +0900, Kurt Euler wrote:
> > All-
> > 
> > Can anyone recommend a regular expression that excludes the return
> > character?
> > 
> > My objective is to find occurances of a string WITHIN A LINE of a  text
> > file. Thus, if givein some_string1 and some_string2, match:
> > 
> > <some_string1><any_character/number/tab/forward-slash/etc_but_no_hard_return
> > ><some_string2>
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Kurt Euler
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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> Daniel Carrera | Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say...
> PhD student.   | 
> Math Dept. UMD | 84. Where's the GUI on this thing?

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