From: "James F.  Hranicky" <jfh@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T04:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: What attracts me to Ruby

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:37:20 +0900
Dan Doel <djd15@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

> 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

As of 1.8, MatchData has the captures method as well:

    % ruby -e 'p "abcd".match(/(.)(.)(.)(.)/).captures' 
    ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
    % ruby -e 'a, b, c, d =  "abcd".match(/(.)(.)(.)(.)/).captures; puts a, b, c, d'
    a
    b
    c
    d

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