From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T20:08:59+09:00
Subject: Re: attaching code to run on regular expression match

Eyal Oren schrieb:
> So I would rather like to attach some code in a match directly, as one
> does in parsing generators, e.g.
> /(\w+:do_method):(\w+:do_other_method)/.
> 
> Would something like that be possible in Ruby? I tried searching but
> I'm not sure how such a feature would be called.

I'm sure I'm missing something, but wouldn't this work:

   string.scan(/(\w+):(\w+)/) do |m1, m2|
     do_method(m1)
     do_other_method(m2)
   end

Maybe you can show us one of your complex regex?

Regards,
Pit