From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-20T10:07:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on improving usage of Regexp#match

Hi,

In message "Re: Thoughts on improving usage of Regexp#match"
    on 02/09/20, Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> writes:

|a = /x/.match("abc") && $~[1] || ""     # a => ""
|
|b = /(b)/.match("abc") && $~[1] || ""   # b => "b"
|
|c = /b/.match("abc") && $~[1] || ""     # c => ""

I guess Hal dislikes these for ugly "$".  Another solution:

  regex.match(str)
  sub1 = Regexp.last_match(1) || ""

							matz.