Making rbeautify.rb work with SciTE
I really like Paul Lutus’ Ruby Beautifier but it does not display properly in SciTE because it is missing the tabs on blank lines. Luckily its really easy to fix.
BROKEN - SciTE with tabs missing:
Assigning RegEx brackets into variables with Ruby
Ruby has the ability to reference the last RegEx used and extract portions of it to assign to variables.
Define a new search:
[sourcecode language='ruby']
line = “foo==>to the bar”
rx = Regexp.new(/(.*)(\=\=\>)(.*)/) # each bracket can be assigned to a variable
rx.match(line)
head = Regexp.last_match(1) # foo
middle = Regexp.last_match(2) # ==>
tail = Regexp.last_match(3) # bar
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you could also also use this by streamlining it in an if statement.
[sourcecode language='ruby']
line = “foo==>to