From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-08-27T04:00:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:28:07 +0900, 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.

The latest Oniguruma supports it. I'm not sure how to use/enable that, but 
it does support it.

-austin
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software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.08.26
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