From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T21:12:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Please recommend a regular expression excluding return character...


"Kurt Euler" <keuler@portal.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:C47CCC6238EFD4119C5200508B95A10010B7F19D@cup1ex1.portal.com...
> 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_retu
rn
> ><some_string2>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kurt Euler

If you use readline or gets you don't even need to bother with the
newlines:

File.open("file.txt", "r") do |f|
  while ( line = f.gets )
    line.chomp!

    if /my_regexp/ =~ line
      puts "Found it!"
    end
  end
end

Otherwise omitting the /m flag at the regexp avoids "." to match the
newline.

Regards

    robert