From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-01-20T07:39:28+09:00
Subject: Re: regex help

Can this span multiple lines for a match?

Zach

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Morris [mailto:chrismo@clabs.org]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:08 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: regex help


Zach Dennis wrote:

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

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

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

>I guess I'm not exaxctly following what you are attempting to do.
>  
>
I'm on a job where the code in question is J++, and MS supports 
conditional compiles.. I'm writing a 'pre-processor' that will process 
out the conditional compile directives so I can run some of the code on 
a pure java VM.

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Chris
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