From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2006-11-02T07:55:16+09:00
Subject: Re: regex capture and assign... in one line?


Nate Murray wrote:
> Question, I've been using Ruby for a while now and I have a perlism I
> kind of miss.
>
> Given
>
> $str = "foo123";
>
> my ($foo,$bar) = $str =~ /(\w+)(\d+)/;
>
> # now we have
> $foo; #=> "foo"
> $bar; #=> "123"
>
> I know that I can do this in Ruby in TWO lines, but I want to do it in
> ONE line. Anyone have any ideas?

str = "foo123"

foo, bar = str.split( /^(\D*)/ )[1..-1]

foo, bar = str.scan( /\D+|\d+/ )