From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T20:20:30+09:00
Subject: Re: regex: capture groups and term binding

Hey Simon,

> 
> string = <<-EOVAR
> XD 1 * 100000436 3441863 1550663 1161254 951982
> XD 1 479903531056 47988002622 21360568539 18276299303 15476234490
> XD 1 66934 5552 321640438 40297830 0
> XD 1 0 3235 2197 10907 1631621
> XD 1 15488078 210564267 574075997 2405132745 7805716381
> XD 1 0 4949 0 58361 0
> (goes for about 17 lines, all separated by \n)
> <<EOVAR

Maybe I am seriously misunderstanding something, but why not just:

string.split("\n").map{|line| line.scan(/\d+/)} ?

Cheers,
Peter
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