From: Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T02:11:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26160] Non-perlish regular expressions (was: Linux Magazine article)

--- Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry for jumping in late, and for my ignorance of regular
expressions in general, but is this any good?

Kevin
----
mbox = '/mailbox/testing-for-dashes'

dash_split = Regexp.new('.*?-')
ext = dash_split.match(mbox)
ext2 = dash_split.match(ext.post_match)
ext3 = ext2.post_match
p ext.to_s
p ext2.to_s
p ext3.to_s


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