From: Hans Mackowiak <lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-20T15:14:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl to Ruby: regex captures to assignment.

how about this? use the magic of =~ to assign the local variables

w, n, d = 0, frac_str, 1 unless /(?:(?<w>\S+) )*?(?<n>\S+)\/(?<d>\S+)/ 
=~ frac_str

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