From: petermichaux@...
Date: 2006-04-02T06:08:44+09:00
Subject: Regexp grouping question

Hi

I'm trying to remove unecessary white space around equals signs and
after semicolons

compressed = "foo = bar; red  = herring;"
compressed = compressed.gsub(/\s*([=;])\s*/,"#$1")
puts compressed

produces
foobarredherring

but I would like it to produce
foo=bar;red=herring;

Seems like the #$1 is not working. I also tried #{$1} but that didn't
work either.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Peter