From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-20T10:18:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on improving usage of Regexp#match

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: Thoughts on improving usage of Regexp#match


> |So I tried writing:
> |
> |  sub1 = regex.match(str)[1] || ""
> 
> How about
> 
>   sub1 = (regex.match(str)[1] rescue "")
> 
> if you're using 1.7.x?

I like that very much. I don't usually use
1.7.x, though, except with FreeRIDE.

Hal