From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T21:28:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, 10:18:24 PM, Emmanuel wrote:

> 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")

I'm 99.99% sure it doesn't.

Gavin