I’m writing this simple substitution method and I have a
providing me with the input text. I have some multiline text:
This is
a test
ok?
Which I pass through to my async method in the variable @text.
In the method, my regular expression and gsub matches anything between
asterisks, and put it in brackets:
@text.gsub!(/*(.*?)*/m, ‘<\1>’)
And this yields:
This is a ok?
How can I get my regexp to stop eating the newlines? As you can see, I
have the multiline flag on. Am I missing something within the actual
regexp? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
This is odd, as running in irb yields the following:
irb(main):001:0> s = “This is\na test\nok?”
=> “This is\na test\nok?”
irb(main):002:0> s.gsub(/*(.?)*/m, ‘<\1>’)
=> “This is\na \nok?”
irb(main):002:0> puts s.gsub(/*(.?)*/m, ‘<\1>’)
This is
a
ok?
Here is my Ruby version:
david@redclay ~ $ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-linux]
I wonder why it works for me in irb, but not for you in your controller?
I
also ran it in script/console with Rails 1.2.3, and everything was
golden.
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