From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-22T22:03:56+09:00
Subject: Re: A little help on finding the closest match

On Friday 22 October 2004 04:19 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
| If you're just interested in the tokens you probably want this:
|
| /(token1)|(token2(?:sub2))/
|
| i.e. use capturing groups for tokens and non capturing groups for all sub
| groups.

Indeed! Thank You. I was doing this:

  /(sub)(token)(?=sub)/

But looking over my code I think your expression may work better. I will try 
and see.

| > And the match indexes seem to get lost when I join them. Also, I'm not
| > sure how to tell which token it was that actually matched.
|
| You can use Regexp#match. Or use scan in a method with return in the
| block.

Okay, I'll look into this too.

Thanks again,
T.


(God willing, I may actually finish this program in my lifetime ;)