From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-donner" <wonado@...>
Date: 2007-05-20T23:56:23+09:00
Subject: Re: why no MatchData#match ?

Robert Klemme wrote:
> If you can come up with an unambiguous name I'd make it a RCR.

Maybe "MatchData#matched" makes sense.

irb(main):009:0> md = "Hugo is a great dancer!".match(/great/)
=> #<MatchData:0x2b35644>
irb(main):010:0> md.pre_match
=> "Hugo is a "
irb(main):011:0> md.matched
=> "great"
irb(main):012:0> md.post_match
=> " dancer!"

Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner

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