From: Thomas E Enebo <enebo@...>
Date: 2005-02-10T06:05:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How to mimic Perl's `s///' in Ruby?

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Glenn Parker defenestrated me:

> Jos Backus wrote:
> >Given Perl's
> >
> >    $_ = "123 foo";
> >
> >    s/^(\d+)\s+//;
> >    $pid = $1;
> >
> >    print "$_\n$pid\n";
> 
> Closer to the original Perl:
> 
>   line = "123 foo"
>   line.sub!(/^(\d+)\s+/, '')
>   pid = $1
>   puts line, pid

  Even a little closer to the original perl...Though I am sure you are
not asking how to get ruby syntax closer to Perls :)

alias :s :sub

$_ = "123 foo";

s /^(\d+)\s+/, '';
$pid = $1;

print "#$_\n#$pid\n";

-Tom

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