From: Elias Karakoulakis <ekarak@...>
Date: 2002-12-31T19:32:20+09:00
Subject: Re: How to translate this Perl regex

Helmut Leitner wrote:

>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?
>  
>
str.gsub /(pat1+)pat2(pat3*)/ { |m| foo(m[1], m[2]) }

Note that it;s better to use m[1] and m[2] instead of $1/$2 ..

Happy new year!