From: Jos Backus <josb@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T16:11:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26118] Re: Linux Magazine article

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 03:47:43PM +0900, ts wrote:
> J>     ($ext) = $mbox =~ /.*?-(.+)$/;
> J>     ($ext2) = $ext =~ /.*?-(.+)$/;
> 
>   /.*?-/ =~ mbox &&  /.*?-/ =~ (ext = $') && ext2 = $'
> 
>  Too perlish for me :-((((
 
Yes, thanks Guy, but this looks worse than the Perl code :) What would be a
succinct way to do this in Ruby I wonder... I know this idiom is used a lot in
Perl.

> Guy Decoux

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