DRYing a Regex

[RichardOnRails]

Hi,

I got a routine that works fine at building an array of upper-case
string extracting from a string:

while not s.eos?
if s.skip(/[A-Z]+/)
aNewList << s.matched
else
s.skip(/[^A-Z]+/)
end
end

I'd like to say something like the following. But !r doesn't work.
Can a Regex be negated somehow?

r = /[A-Z]+/
while not s.eos?
if s.skip(r)
aNewList << s.matched
else
s.skip(!r) # Doesn't work, of course. What does?
end
end

Thanks in advance,
Richard

[Ian Collins]

RichardOnRails wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a routine that works fine at building an array of upper-case
> string extracting from a string:
>
> while not s.eos?

Try a group for the language you are using!

--
Ian Collins

[RichardOnRails]

Thanks Ian. I posted too fast :-(