From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2007-01-13T01:33:17+09:00 Subject: Re: DRY gsub... On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:26 AM, benjohn@fysh.org wrote: >> a = d.split(/(?:\r\n|[;, ])/) >> >> Hope that helps. > > Out of interest, what does the ?: do in there? I've googled, etc, > honest! (?: ... ) is just ( ... ) without capturing the contents into a variable. James Edward Gray II