From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T13:36:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26193] Re: regex/split/scan question (was: Re: Linux Magazine article)

Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> writes:

> > > to do this. But I'm looking for a replacement in the succinct
> > >
> > >     ($ext) = $mbox =~ /.*?-(.+)$/;
> > >     ($ext2) = $ext =~ /.*?-(.+)$/;

How about

   ext, ext2 = /-(.*?-(.*))/.match(mbox).to_a[1,2]

That's fairly succinct  :)



Dave