From: Paul van Delst <Paul.vanDelst@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T02:05:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem modifying captured regexp results

Pit Capitain wrote:
> 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.

Aha! That is the answer to the question (see my other post).

Bewdy. Thanks Pit and Gavin.

cheers,

paulv

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