From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-04-01T15:29:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Change to /.../.match("foo") behaviour in 1.6.8?

Hi,

In message "Re: Change to /.../.match("foo") behaviour in 1.6.8?"
    on 03/04/01, dblack@superlink.net <dblack@superlink.net> writes:

|I'm getting confused....  It looks like 1.8 goes back to the 1.4
|behavior -- am I right about that?
|
|  candle:~$ ruby -ve 'a, b = /(.)/.match("ab"); p a,b'
|  ruby 1.8.0 (2003-03-03) [i686-linux]
|  "a"
|  "a"

It was a bug to be fixed.

|and for the other behavior, the * doesn't seem to change it (in this
|1.6.8 example):

It should work on the latest.

  % ruby -ve 'a, b = /(.)/.match("ab"); p a,b'
  ruby 1.8.0 (2003-03-28) [i686-linux]
  #<MatchData:0x401a5398>
  nil
  % ruby -ve 'a, b = */(.)/.match("ab"); p a,b'
  ruby 1.8.0 (2003-03-28) [i686-linux]
  "a"
  "a"

Sorry, I forget about 1.6.8 already.

							matz.