From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-12-04T02:37:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Some Regexp

On 3 Dec 2003, Dmitry N Orlov wrote:

> Date: 3 Dec 2003 02:28:24 -0800
> From: Dmitry N Orlov <orlovdn@rambler.ru>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: Some Regexp
> 
> I want to get array from file like this:
> 
> TEXT1
> some text, tabs, CRLF etc 1
> TEXT2
> TEXT1
> some text, tabs, CRLF etc 2
> TEXT2
> TEXT1
> some text, tabs, CRLF etc 3
> TEXT2
> .......
> 
> Array mast constists of "some text, tabs, CRLF etc 1",  "some text,
> tabs, CRLF etc 2"
> 
> Can You help me?

all fields are separated by either
  TEXT2
  TEXT1
or
  TEXT1
as a special case

/tmp > cat foo.rb
txt = <<-txt
  TEXT1
  some text, tabs, CRLF etc 1
  TEXT2
  TEXT1
  some text, tabs, CRLF etc 2
  TEXT2
  TEXT1
  some text, tabs, CRLF etc 3
  TEXT2
txt

p(txt.split(%r/(?:TEXT1)|(?:TEXT2$)?TEXT1/iom)[1..-1])


/tmp > ruby foo.rb
["\n  some text, tabs, CRLF etc 1\n  TEXT2\n  ", "\n  some text, tabs, CRLF etc 2\n  TEXT2\n  ", "\n  some text, tabs, CRLF etc 3\n  TEXT2\n"]


note that the first field is dropped, since it is empty.

-a
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