From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-04-08T01:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: a question about regexp

Hi,

At Tue, 8 Apr 2003 01:06:20 +0900,
ts wrote:
> B> Displaying $& in the inner loop of grep works fine, but when it enter my own
> B> block, $& is put back to nil. Is there a way to keep the value of $& (and
> B> all others $1...)?
> 
>  Well, $~ is a local, and thread local variable and perhaps in your case it
>  best to give this variable to the block, something like

You can assign a MatchData to $~ and use $& and so on, but I
don't recommend it.

-- 
Nobu Nakada