From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T03:27:57+09:00
Subject: Re: What attracts me to Ruby

* Matt Lawrence <matt@technoronin.com> [0823 19:23]:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, MikkelFJ wrote:
> 
> > The $ syntax is widely recognized to be a mistake - it helps Perlers
> > intially but it doesn't bring anything to the table you couldn't express
> > easily in a cleaner syntax. I think it is fair to say that it is considered
> > bad form to use $ in Ruby code, but then I guess many have just gotten used
> > to it.
> 
> I've often wondered if there was a good alternative to using $1, $2, $3, 
> etc. to pull stuff out of a string that has been matched with a regular 
> expression.  Ideas?

See bottom of

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/tut_stdtypes.html

(the 'Object-Oriented Regular Expressions' section)
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