From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T21:47:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@wanadoo.fr> 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".

I started doing this (xregex: http://zem.novylen.net/ruby/index.html),
but stopped because Onigurama now supports this feature. The code's
usable as-is, though, and I'd be happy to add features if you want to
use it.

martin