From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-13T04:34:05+09:00
Subject: Re: String frustration

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:23:37AM +0900, Tim Kynerd wrote:
> >>> re = %r{([^\t]+)\t([^\t]+)\t([^\t]+)\n}m
> > => /([^\t]+)\t([^\t]+)\t([^\t]+)\n/m
> >>> a =~ re
> > => 0
> >>> p $1, $2, $3
> > "1"
> > "second field\nwith newlines\nbla\nbla" "third"
> > => nil
> 
> No offense, but if I wanted THAT, I'd be using Perl.

No offence???? You just called me Perl-lover, man! ;-)
[never really used Perl] 

> Thanks anyway.

If you want to get it more "the Ruby way",
 * use the object oriented regex interface or
 * use String#scan

But AFAIK, matz doesn't consider regexes to be an evil perlish feature to
be deprecated. I'll go on using them.

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