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Re: Finding un-escaped characters in scan

Stefan Rusterholz

7/28/2007 1:41:00 PM

Fred Phillips wrote:
> I have a string that looks like this: "test,,\,test". And I'm trying to
> count the commas which don't follow a \. But when using scan(/[^\\],/)
> it
> only finds the first comma. I think this is because after scan() has
> found a
> comma without a backslash, it continues from where it left off, and
> since
> there's no character before the next comma, it won't match it. Does
> anyone
> know how to fix it?

Just wanted to point out a mistake the OP and all of the replying people
made:
",,\,," # => ",,,,"
The , is *not* escaped. You need ',,\,,' # => ',,\\,,'

Regards
Stefan
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