From: michael libby <x@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T20:04:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Sort::Versions (was Re: Perl multiple match RE in Ruby?)

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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 04:36, Simon Cozens wrote:
> michael libby <x@ichimunki.com> writes:
> > On Monday 21 October 2002 22:52, WATANABE Hirofumi wrote:
> > > How about String#scan ?
> >
> > That did the trick! This is why I love Ruby, so easy to get stuff
> > done. The Ruby version is SO much more readable than the Perl too.
>
> While I agree, to be fair to Perl, String#scan *in this instance* is
> equivalent to String#split, which is Perl's split.
>
> Of course, String#scan *does* do things that Perl's split can't do, but
> what you're doing isn't one of them. :)

I was all set to refute this. Then I read 'perldoc -f split' and discovered 
that in Perl's split() if /EXPR/ contains capturing parentheses it will 
return the match as well as splitting on it. It works this way in Ruby, 
too. Thanks for pointing this out.

 -michael

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