From: Bil.Kleb@...
Date: 2005-11-09T01:42:12+09:00
Subject: String#match shim for Ruby 1.6

How do I shim 1.6 for String.match?

I've tried,

 unless String::respond_to?(:match)
  class String
   def match(regex)
    regex.match(self)
   end
 end

but it doesn't set the group match variables, e.g.,
$1, $2, and so forth.

(Note: the above doesn't even attempt to deal with
converting a string to a regexp as 1.8's String.match
does.)

Thanks,
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Bil
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