From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-06-12T17:02:07+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03303] Re: dev.rubycentral.com

Me:
> There's some "normal" :) trash at
> http://dev.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_matchingdata.html 

And I:

Maybe I should've tested first and then write, but I was and still am a
little bit in hurry - even if you can't notice it :).

Dave's example for MatchData.[] 

  m = /(.)(.)(\{}d+)(\{}d)/.match("THX1138.")

returns nil on my Win (rbdj144) environment. I was wondering for a while why
you have (\{}d+) and then I got it. Maybe it belongs to the same class as
other Latex environments :). Haven't seen such regexp anyway.

Well, then I tried

ruby> m=/(.)(.)(\d+)(\d)/.match("THX1138.")
#<MatchingData:0x246a00>
ruby> m[0]
""
ruby> m[0,5]
[nil]

and now I really wonder what's going on. I thought it should act now as
[]-example code. 

Ruby regexps seemed to be better than others, but since I couldn't use them
in few minutes, I can't regard them as high anymore :).

	- Aleksi