From: "Guy N. Hurst" Date: 2001-04-21T12:57:11+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:13955] Re: regexp Hee-Sob Park wrote: > > How about > > key, val = /^(.+)=(.+)$/.match(var)[1..-1] > if key > ... > > Or > > if (key, val = /^(.+)=(.+)$/.match(var)[1..-1])[0] > ... > These will result in: NameError: undefined method `[]' for nil if there is no match... Guy N. Hurst -- HurstLinks Web Development http://www.hurstlinks.com/ Norfolk, VA 23510 (757)623-9688 FAX 623-0433 PHP/MySQL - Ruby/Perl - HTML/Javascript