From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T21:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Some Regexp

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Dmitry V. Sabanin wrote:

> Something like this should help:
>
> open = "TEXT1"
> close = "TEXT2"
> array = data.scan(/#{Regexp::quote(open)}(.*?)#{Regexp::quote(close)}/m).flatten
>
> I get:
> array == ["\nsome text, tabs, CRLF etc 1\n", "\nsome text, tabs, CRLF etc 2\n", "\nsome text, tabs, CRLF etc 3\n"]
> with your data.

Interesting.  This doesn't cope with nesting though.  I've just
tried that out.  Is there a good way to do that with scan?

        Hugh