From: Dennis Decker Jensen <dennisdecker@...>
Date: 2001-04-22T23:43:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14025] SV:  Re: regexp

Felix von Delius wrote:
#  much shorter and readable like this:
#
#    /^(\d+),(\d+)$/.match(line) do | first, second |
#      print ">>#{first} >>#{second}\n"
#    end

As have been said, it's already there -- just reverse the objects:

line.scan(/^(\d+),(\d+)$/) do | first, second |
	print ">>#{first} >>#{second}\n"
end

#  Wouldn't it be a large improvement? Would it break existing code?

I don't know of side effects and breaking code, but String#scan seems to be
sufficient for the job.

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Dennis Decker Jensen