From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2007-02-22T12:29:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex group without capture

From: S. Robert James [mailto:srobertjames@gmail.com] :
# Is there a way to make a regex group without capturing the group (in
# Perl I believe it's possible, can't find any docs how to do this in
# Ruby)

same, preprend "?:" , like (?:<expr_here>), where <expr_here> will not be captured

irb(main):006:0> "this is a test".scan /(this).*(test)/
=> [["this", "test"]]
irb(main):007:0> "this is a test".scan /(this).*(?:test)/
=> [["this"]]
irb(main):008:0> "this is a test".scan /(?:this).*(test)/
=> [["test"]]

kind regards -botp