From: Kevin Ballard <kballard@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T22:51:58+09:00
Subject: Re: attaching code to run on regular expression match


Pit Capitain wrote:
> OK, thanks for your example. I think the regexp engine of Ruby 1.9
> called Oniguruma supports something like named sub-expressions, which
> might be what you need.

Oniguruma is indeed the regexp engine of Ruby, but are you sure named
subexpressions aren't already in Ruby? I thought they were, but I've
only actually used them in TextMate (an OS X text editor that uses
Oniguruma as its regex engine).

Hrm, I just tested and it does appear that named subexpressions aren't
in Ruby 1.8. That's interesting, because I thought Oniguruma supported
them quite a while ago.