From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-11-01T07:22:47+09:00
Subject: Re: regex capture and assign... in one line?

From: Nate Murray [mailto:jashmenn@gmail.com] 
> $str = "foo123";
> 
> my ($foo,$bar) = $str =~ /(\w+)(\d+)/;

irb(main):001:0> str = "foo123"
=> "foo123"
irb(main):004:0> _,foo,bar = /(\w+)(\d+)/.match( str ).to_a
=> ["foo123", "foo12", "3"]

Perhaps you meant ([a-z]+), but that's obviously not the point.