From: Lorenzo Brito Morales Date: 2011-02-26T17:33:55+09:00 Subject: regex gsub i have already working these phone.gsub(regex, "< #{regex.match(phone)} >" ) but i think is another way to do it not? like phone.gsub(regex,"< \1 >") but the last instrucction does not bring the regex.match what i want to do , is suppose you have the string "i love my dad " the regex find dad then substitute dad , i have already solved but i want to know if the a fancy way to do the gsub like gsub(regex,"< \1 >") instead of phone.gsub(regex, "< #{regex.match(phone)} >" )