From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T04:44:10+09:00
Subject: Regexp: named captures

How do named captures in Ruby work? This is what I've tried:

irb(main):001:0> if /(?<name>.+)/ =~ /ari/
irb(main):002:1> puts $name
irb(main):003:1> end
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):1: undefined (?...) sequence: /(?<name>.+)/
         from (irb):3

and if I do this:

irb(main):007:0> if /(<name>.+)/ =~ /ari/
irb(main):008:1> puts $name
irb(main):009:1> end
TypeError: can't convert Regexp into String
         from (irb):7

I get a Regexp => String error.

Bwah?
aRi
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