From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2004-01-20T06:44:17+09:00
Subject: Re: regex help

Simon Strandgaard wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:38:12 +0900, Chris Morris wrote:
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>  
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>>I need a re such that:
>>
>>  '  /* comment */  String s = "***/";  '.gsub(re, "*\\")
>>
>>returns:
>>
>>  '  /* comment *\  String s = "***/";  '
>>
>>I want to find all *\ instances that are not enclosed in double-quotes. 
>>Or is this one of those problems ill-suited for a regex?
>>    
>>
>
>
>possible.. but difficult.
>
>I spend this evening making some _broken_ experiments.
>  
>

I thought it might be. I've fallen back and written a simple 
char-by-char parser that ignores pieces inside quotes.


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