From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-03-24T19:13:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13169] Re: capturing regex matches.



> > > Is there a shortcut like:
> > > if ((command) = part =~ /#{@pre}\s*(.*?)\s*#{@post}$/s)
> > >       puts "command: #{command}"
> > > end

<snip>

> Or this:
> 
> if command = /#{@pre}\s*(.*?)\s*#{@post}$/s.match(part)
> 	puts "command: #{command[1] || 'not found'}"
> end

Or this:
  if ((command, junk) = /#{@pre}\s*(.*?)\s*#{@post}$/s.match(part))
       puts "command: #{command || 'not found'}"

Of course, that syntax makes more sense when you're actually expecting
two or more matches, and you don't need the "junk" variable...

Avi