From: Shannon Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2002-12-07T07:22:56+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp reference

String.scan is better for my purpose. because I need to group the
sub-matches by using join. Thanks anyway.

Shannon

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:18:29 +0900
Mauricio Fern~{an~}dez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 06:26:39AM +0900, Shannon Fang wrote:
> > Please help me with the following problem:
> > 
> > / (  ( a ) ( b ) ) (c)/
> >   1  2      3       4
> > 
> > in Match Data, it seems that $1.. $4 are defined as above. How can I let
> > regex.match(string) method to return an array like this:
> > 
> > [ [a,b], c] ?
> 
> Perhaps I'm being stupid here, but what's wrong about
> 
> irb(main):003:0> "abc" =~~ /(?:(a)(b))(c)/
> 0
> irb(main):004:0> p [[$1,$2],$3]
> [["a", "b"], "c"]
> nil
>  
> ?
> 
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