From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-10T07:48:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6231] Re: MatchData#[](0)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6227] MatchData#[](0)"
    on 00/11/10, hal9000@hypermetrics.com <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|Suppose you were doing something like capitalizing the vowels
|in a string:
|
|  str.gsub(/aeiou]/) { $&.upcase }
|
|But suppose you didn't want to use $&, butt wanted to use a
|MatchData object md and reference md[0].
|
|Is there a good way?

  1. use $~
  2. use Regexp::last_match

							matz.