From: Dominik Bathon <dbatml@...>
Date: 2006-07-20T02:57:19+09:00
Subject: Re: How to preserve $~ when extending Regexp#match

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:16:51 +0200, Brendan Baldwin  
<ruby-forum@brendanbaldwin.com> wrote:

> Mauricio --
>
> The block implentation is pretty cool -- My problem is I was trying to
> modify Regexp#match for use with a production application at my current
> employer, which also uses the REXML library, that unfortunately uses $~
> vars all over and doesn't use blocks to get at them, so it breaks.
>
> And I'm constrained in not using set_trace_func here, so that's
> unfortunatlely out of the picture too.

Are C extension okay?

In that case you could use rb_backref_set() to achieve what you want.


Dominik