From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-04-28T19:20:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Scanning a String

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, David A. Black wrote:

> Just to add a possible variant: depending how you want to handle three
> or more vowels in a row, you might want to do:
>
>  pious".gsub(/([aeiou])(?=[aeiou])/) { "#{$1}'#{$2}" }
>
> which will result in:  pi'o'us

I managed to omit the " before pious... and also, I didn't actually
need #{$2} in there.  In fact, $2 is nil (because ?= isn't captured).
So....

    "pious".gsub(/([aeiou])(?=[aeiou])/) { "#{$1}'" }


David

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