Re: unterminated string meets end of file

From	Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Subject	Re: unterminated string meets end of file
Date	2013-08-12 21:15 +0200
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On 08.08.2013 21:31, Simon Krahnke wrote:
> * Andi Altendorfer <iboard.cc@gmail.com> (13:07) schrieb:
>
>> puts 'some." string'.gsub(/(\s+)?\.\"/, ' ').gsub(/\ +/,' ')
>
> What are parentheses for? And the question mark? /\s*\.\"/?

And why escape a double quote in a regexp?  And what about following spaces?

irb(main):002:0> 'some." string'.gsub(/\s*\."\s*/, ' ')
=> "some string"

Cheers

	robert

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  Re: unterminated string meets end of file Andi Altendorfer <iboard.cc@gmail.com> - 2013-08-07 06:13 -0700
    Re: unterminated string meets end of file div n <divya.n25@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 02:23 -0700
      Re: unterminated string meets end of file Andi Altendorfer <iboard.cc@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 04:07 -0700
        Re: unterminated string meets end of file Simon Krahnke <overlord@gmx.li> - 2013-08-08 21:31 +0200
          Re: unterminated string meets end of file Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-08-12 21:15 +0200

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