From: Akinori MUSHA <knu@...>
Date: 2000-10-05T04:38:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5290] Re: MatchData methods

At Thu, 5 Oct 2000 04:26:40 +0900,
Louis A. Mamakos <louie@TransSys.COM> wrote:
> So, I was regexp'ing away just now, and noted a MatchData method missing which
> would be very useful (at least to me).  I was doing something like this:
> 
> re = Regexp.compile("([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F])([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F])")
> match = re.match(someRandomString)
> foo = match.slice(1,2).join(':')
> 
> which of course didn't work.  I had assumed that since MatchData had
> a [] method, it might also support some other array-like functionality.  Is
> there a way to extract an array of the matched results from a MatchData
> object?

to_a is your friend:

	foo = match.to_a.slice(1,2).join(':')

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