Rails - May 2007 - Substitutions without eating newlines

I''m writing this simple substitution method and I have a
<textarea>
providing me with the input text. I have some multiline text:

This is
a *test*
ok?

Which I pass through to my async method in the variable @text.
In the method, my regular expression and gsub matches anything between
asterisks, and put it in brackets:

@text.gsub!(/\*(.*?)\*/m, ''<\1>'')

And this yields:

This is a <test> ok?

How can I get my regexp to stop eating the newlines? As you can see, I
have the multiline flag on. Am I missing something within the actual
regexp? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


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This is odd, as running in irb yields the following:

irb(main):001:0> s = "This is\na *test*\nok?"
=> "This is\na *test*\nok?"
irb(main):002:0> s.gsub(/\*(.*?)\*/m, ''<\1>'')
=> "This is\na <test>\nok?"
irb(main):002:0> puts s.gsub(/\*(.*?)\*/m, ''<\1>'')
This is
a <test>
ok?

Here is my Ruby version:

david@redclay ~ $ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-linux]

I wonder why it works for me in irb, but not for you in your controller? I
also ran it in script/console with Rails 1.2.3, and everything was golden.

On 5/19/07, Whitedot
<whitedotstudios-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
>
> I''m writing this simple substitution method and I have a
<textarea>
> providing me with the input text. I have some multiline text:
>
> This is
> a *test*
> ok?
>
> Which I pass through to my async method in the variable @text.
> In the method, my regular expression and gsub matches anything between
> asterisks, and put it in brackets:
>
> @text.gsub!(/\*(.*?)\*/m, ''<\1>'')
>
> And this yields:
>
> This is a <test> ok?
>
> How can I get my regexp to stop eating the newlines? As you can see, I
> have the multiline flag on. Am I missing something within the actual
> regexp? Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
>
> >
>
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