From: John Smith <edvelez.g@...>
Date: 2010-09-18T00:04:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing part what's found with a regex

John Smith wrote:
> Jonathan Nielsen wrote:
>> You will find that portions of the regex marked with parentheses will be
>> places in variables called $1, $2, etc.  So, you will want to change the
>> regex to
>> 
>> /(?!%)\w+\s+(\(\w+\))/
>> 
>> And then the contents of (\(\w+\)) will be placed in the variable $2.
>> 
>> -Jonathan Nielsen
> 
> hmm I'm trying to print this variable
> but I get nothing. I've tried:
> 
> puts "#$2"
> puts "#{$2}"

Ah just realized it is in variable $1.
(?!%) is a look ahead so I guess it doesn't count as a group?
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