From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T06:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: named captures

On Aug 20, 3:32 pm, William James <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2:44 pm, Ari Brown <a...@aribrown.com> wrote:
> > How do named captures in Ruby work? This is what I've tried:

> A work-around:
>
> md = "foo bar".match( /(\w+) (\w+)/ )
>     ==>#<MatchData:0x2851ef0>
> name, surname = md.captures
>     ==>["foo", "bar"]
> name
>     ==>"foo"
> surname
>     ==>"bar"

Or my favorite (courtesy of Ara):

_, name, surname = /(\w+) (\w+)/.match("foo bar").to_a