From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-08-27T04:37:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Named matches for regular expressions (was: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?)

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:29:22 +0900, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> Apparently, Austin Ziegler recently wrote:
>> 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)?
>>> 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.

No. See [ruby-talk:79047] and following.

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[ruby-dev:21147] [Oniguruma] list of all captures
[ruby-dev:21174] [Oniguruma] Version 1.9.2

  TANAKA Akira suggested a new function, to capture all matchings for
  the one expression.  e.g.

    m = /(?@<name>\/\w+)+/.match("/usr/local/bin/ruby")
    p m['name']   #=> ["/usr", "/local", "/bin", "/ruby"]
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-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.08.26
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