From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T10:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: named captures

On Aug 20, 4:40 pm, Phrogz <phr...@mac.com> wrote:
> 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

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