From: Charles Thornton <ceo@...>
Date: 2008-03-05T04:37:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Named captures and regular captures

Dave Thomas wrote:
> It seems that once you have a named capture in a regular expression, 
> you can no longer use numeric captures.
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>          m = /(.)(.)(?<digit_prefix>\d+)(\d)/.match("THX1138.")
>          m.begin(:digit_prefix)
>          m.begin(2)    #=> index 2 out of matches
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>         $1 #=>  113
>         $2 #=> nil
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>         m.to_a  #=> => ["HX1138", "113"]
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> Is this expected?
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> Dave
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My God Dave -- Did not know you were that old!
   THX1138  -- My second childhood SCI-FI movie!

 Chuck T.