From: Ben <coppin@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T08:15:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Replacing part of a matched regular expression using gsub

Hi Jesus,

> Hi, it works for me:
>
> irb(main):009:0> replacement = "\\1102\\3,"
> => "\\1102\\3,"
> irb(main):010:0> word = "qweraxbtyuiop"
> => "qweraxbtyuiop"
> irb(main):011:0> word.gsub!(Regexp.new("(a)(x)(b)"), replacement)
> => "qwera102b,tyuiop"
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jesus.

Thank you! Actually, that did help, as it made me realise that what I
needed to do was try it out in irb. I got it to work now - thanks!
(For the record, the problem was that rule.getRegExp was returning
"(a)x(b)" instead of "(a)(x)(b)").

Ben