From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2007-01-30T03:28:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Named groups in regexp matches?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:24:40AM +0900, Tom Pollard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does Ruby support regexps that assign names to specific matched  
> groups?  In Python, for instance, if you write a regexp like this,
> 
> TEMP_RE = re.compile(r"""^(?P<temp>(M|-)?\d+|//|XX|MM)/
>                           (?P<dewpt>(M|-)?\d+|//|XX|MM)?\s+""",
>                           re.VERBOSE)
> 
> the match object will provide a hash with keys 'temp' and 'dewpt',  
[...]

Take a look at this thread:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/80270

> Thanks,
> Tom
--Greg