Question

I have the following data

Animals = Dog Cat Turtle \
          Mouse Parrot \
          Snake

I would like the regex to construct a match of just the animals with none of the backslashes: Dog Cat Turtle Mouse Parrot Snake

I’ve got a regex, but need some help finishing it off.

/ANIMALS\s*=\s*([^\\\n]*)/

Answer 1

How ’bout the regex \b(?!Animals\b)\w+\b which matches all words that aren’t Animals? Use the scan method to collect all such matches, e.g.

matchArray = sourceString.scan(/\b(?!Animals\b)\w+\b/)