From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T01:22:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem modifying captured regexp results

Paul van Delst schrieb:
> (...)
> 
>     if line =~ componentRegexp
>       # We have matched an array component definition
>       arrayList<<{"type"=>$1,
>                   "param"=>$2,
>                   "dimlist"=>$3.split(/\s*,\s*/), # <--- split dimlist
>                   "name"=>$4,
>                   "description"=>$5}
> 
> but I've found that the above operation on the $3 captured result 
> appears to "wipe" the subsequent entries $4 (name) and $5 (description). 

Paul, the problem is that #split with a Regexp internally executes some 
Regexp matches which change $1, $2 etc. You have to capture the results 
of the first match before executing the split.

Regards,
Pit