From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T23:17:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Some Regexp


"Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng" <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0312031220260.10895@neelix...
> 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?

Do you mean nesting of TEXT1...TEXT2 sections within each other?  That
can't be done with regexps.  You need a context free parser for that.

Cheers

    robert