From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-01T10:44:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Change to /.../.match("foo") behaviour in 1.6.8?

Hi,

In message "Change to /.../.match("foo") behaviour in 1.6.8?"
    on 03/03/31, Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> writes:

|In 1.6.7 and 1.7, I had the following line work:
|
|      l, m1, m2 = /((?:\S+\s+){11})(.+)/.match(line)
|
|This meant that #match return worked like an array.

Put "*" before the expression, e.g.

	l, m1, m2 = */((?:\S+\s+){11})(.+)/.match(line)

							matz.