From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T20:23:13+09:00
Subject: Re: testing and assigning with regexp's

Mike Steiner wrote:
> I'm new to Ruby, and in a little program I'm writing, I have code like 
> this:
>
> str = ''
> if /something/.match(str)
>    str = /something/.match(str)[1]
> end
>
> Is there a more elegant way to do this?
>
> Mike Steiner
>
str = ''
m = /something/.match(str)
str = m[1] if m

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