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• StringScanner scanning IO instead of a string

  - by jes5199

  I've got a parser written using ruby's standard StringScanner. It would be nice if I could use it on streaming files. Is there an equivalent to StringScanner that doesn't require me to load the whole string into memory?

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• Difference between ruby StringScanner post_match and rest?

  - by zhon

  What is the difference between ruby's StringScanner#post_match and StringScanner#rest? scanner = StringScanner.new('Say hello to...') scanner.scan(/\w+/) #=> 'Say' scanner.scan(/\s+/) #=> ' ' scanner.rest #=> 'hello to...' scanner.post_match #=> 'hello to...' scanner.rest.class #=> String scanner.post_match.class #=> String I don't see a difference. It seems like both return a string containing everything after the match.

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