----- 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