----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias Reif" <tobiasreif / pinkjuice.com> To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:40 PM Subject: [ruby-talk:16448] Re: regex: all but one > please excuse me, I found the solution: > .*|\n* > > thx, Tobi > > Tobias Reif schrieb: > > > > Hi; > > > > how can I express the following in a regex: > > "all possible characters, including newlines and carriage returns, but > > no quotes" > > > > this doesn't work: > > (.|\n|\"{0})* > > > > Or maybe just: > > "all possible characters including newlines" > > (.|\n)* > > doesn't work either > > > > Tobi > > Hi, How about a negated character class: /[^"]+/m Wayne