From: loveajax@...
Date: 2008-05-04T22:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Backreferences in case statements

On May 4, 5:40 am, Pit Capitain <pit.capit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/3  <lovea...@gmail.com>:
>
> >  Where does Ruby store the MatchData if the
> >  matching is done in a case statement?
>
> Subbu, there's also Regexp.last_match. Sometimes this reads better
> than those Perl-like variables.
>
> Regards,
> Pit

Hi Pitt,

I did use Regexp.last_match. But its a class method. I am interested
in using something like pre_match and post_match methods which are
instance variables. But looks like my code never created the instance
of MatchData.

Thanks
-subbu