From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T21:18:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

Hello!

Tim Hunter wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:15:38 +0900, Ronald Pijnacker wrote:
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>In the paper version of the Pickaxe r{m} is described on
>page 61. Extensions such as (?:...) on pp. 209-211.
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>My online version of the Pickaxe (from ruby-doc.org) documents both as
>well. For the extensions, click The Ruby Language in the TOC and scroll
>down to the Extensions section. Repetition (r{m}) is documented in
>Standard Types.
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btw, since there is a thread about that, i wanted to ask:
does ruby support named matches (sorry i don't know the proper terminology)?
C# does it like this:
"(?<year>\d{4})-(?<month>\d{1,2})-(?<day>\d{1,2})"

matches "2002-4-6"
and then in my match groups i have "year", "month", "day".

(looked in pickaxe + google ruby "regexp match group")

emmanuel