From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-01-20T06:55:49+09:00
Subject: Re: regex help

Chris,

You want to take all asterik's with a following forward slash that are not
inside of a double-quote?

Zach

P.S. -

if String s = "hello*\"world*\ then you would want to capture the last *\
?

or would you like to convert the last *\ 	to a */   ?

I guess I'm not exaxctly following what you are attempting to do.






-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Morris [mailto:chrismo@clabs.org]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 4:44 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: regex help


Simon Strandgaard wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:38:12 +0900, Chris Morris wrote:
>
>
>
>>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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