From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-11-09T22:26:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Lighting Rod

Hi --

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Alan Chen wrote:

> Now I'm curious, how many people use this:
>
> if( str =~ /pattern/)
>   # .. do stuff with $1, $2, et al..
>
> versus this:
>
> if( m = /pattern/.match(str) )
>   # do stuff with match obj. m

I tend to use some variant of the latter.  Usually it ends up looking
like:

  m = re.match(str)
  if m
    puts "Your first name is #{m[1]}."
  else
    puts "You have no name...."
  end


David

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