From: Helmut Leitner <helmut.leitner@...>
Date: 2002-12-31T19:22:18+09:00
Subject: How to translate this Perl regex

Someone said that Ruby can do anything that Perl does.
How would you write this Perl regex 

   $s =~ s/(pat1+)pat2(pat3*)/&foo($1,$2)/ge;

in Ruby?

It 
  - does a global replace (/g) in one sweep
  - executes code (calls function) to create the replacement string (/e)
  - uses parts of the searched patterns (groupings) as parameters to foo

My books
  - Ruby in a Nutshell
  - The Ruby Way
are very brief with respect to regexs and don't give
me a clue how to do this.

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Graz, Austria   www.hls-software.com