From: Dan Doel <djd15@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T03:37:20+09:00
Subject: Re: What attracts me to Ruby

For example:

re = /(.)(.)((.).)/
match = re.match "abcd"

if match
    p match[0]
    p match[1]
    p match[2]
    p match[3]
    p match[4]
end

Matt Lawrence wrote:

>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?
>
>-- Matt
>  
>