From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2009-03-10T19:12:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp problem

The Higgs bozo wrote:
>>> Why?
>>
>> Because ruby 1.8 does not have look-behind. 1.9 has it, and your code
>> runs on 1.9.

Thanks for the info, Higgs.

Robert Klemme wrote:
> Lookbehind is not needed:
[snip]
> irb(main):002:0> id = url[/id=(\d+)/, 1]
> => "12345"

Cool! I once knew of the second parameter. Thanks for reminding me of 
it.

I wish I could use RI (too slooouuuw on my system) or Fast-RI (I have 
it, but at one point it decided to start throwing exceptions).
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