From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T21:56:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

Is this helpful at all?

year, month, day =
    /(\d{4})-(\d{1,2})-(\d{1,2})/.match(s).to_a


(where s is the string to be matched)