From: Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T22:03:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

Mark Slagell wrote:

>>>
>>> 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})" 
>>
>
> 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)

sure, i just asked for this particular feature "because it's cool", and 
also i can probably think about some cases in which it's actually useful 
;O) (although probably not terribly useful)
but otherwise i'm a happy user of ruby regexps even without it.

emmanuel