From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-11-18T05:03:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25726] Re: String#match

Hello --

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, James F. Hranicky wrote:

>
> Anyone up for String#match?

I can't say I've been pining away for it :-)

> foo = "foo bar baz"
>
> class << foo
>
> 	def match(re)
>
> 		if (md = re.match(self))
> 			a = md.to_a
> 			a.shift
> 			return a.empty? ? 1 : a
> 		else
> 			return nil
> 		end
> 	end
> end
>
> arr = foo.match(/(bar).*(baz)/)
> p arr if arr

It seems more logical for a match method to return MatchData:

  class String; def match(re); re.match(self); end; end

then let the caller decide how to break it out.

(Of course, then one might as well just type them the other way
around in the first place :-)


David

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