From: awushu@...
Date: 2004-12-16T09:57:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex extraction

Scott Rubin wrote:
> First, in ruby, how do I extract parts of a regex?
>
> The other thing I don't know how to do is replace things like &
with &.

require 'cgi'
CGI.unescapeHTML("&") # => "&"

For extracting parts of the match, try
a, b, c = /(.)(.)(.)/.match("abc").captures

-awu