From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T06:20:36+09:00
Subject: Re: super with block

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Gregory Brown
<gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be nice if MatchData was yielded by gsub instead of a string.
>
> -greg
Well, maybe, but do not despair, while the $ special variables are not
available in the block Regexp.last_match *is*

506/6 > cat gsub.rb && ruby gsub.rb
'abc'.gsub(/(.)(.)/){  p Regexp.last_match }
#<MatchData "ab" 1:"a" 2:"b">

HTH
Robert
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