From: eregontp@...
Date: 2018-04-08T11:11:06+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:86478] [Ruby trunk Feature#14669] Regexp does not expose the amount of capture groups.

Issue #14669 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).


This information is available for named captures via Regexp#names and Regexp#named_captures, but it doesn't seem available for unnamed capture groups:

~~~ruby
[15] pry(main)> /(?<one>a)(?<two>b)(?<three>c)/.named_captures
=> {"one"=>[1], "two"=>[2], "three"=>[3]}
[16] pry(main)> /(a)(b)(c)/.named_captures
=> {}
[17] pry(main)> /(?<one>a)(?<two>b)(?<three>c)/.names
=> ["one", "two", "three"]
[18] pry(main)> /(a)(b)(c)/.names
=> []
~~~

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Feature #14669: Regexp does not expose the amount of capture groups.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14669#change-71417

* Author: xfbs (Patrick Elsen)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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For a project we needed to know how many capture groups a Regex exposes (before actually matching it). The Onigmo regex library used by Ruby has this information, accessible with *onig_number_of_captures(const regex_t \*)*, but the Ruby Regexp class doesn't expose this information.




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