From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-02-07T05:47:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp::Parser ported to Ruby...?

Hi,

Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:


> In Perl, you can execute arbitrary code in a regex.
> 
>   "japhy" =~ /((.)(?{ print "<$2>" }))+/;
>   # <j><a><p><h><y>
> 
> I guess that's not possible in Ruby?


One way:

irb(main):003:0> "japhy".gsub(/./)do print "<#{$&}>" end
<j><a><p><h><y>""

Tobi

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