From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@...>
Date: 2003-08-27T04:55:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Named matches for regular expressions (was: Re: Specification      of Ruby regex?)

Apparently, Austin Ziegler recently wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----------
> [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"]
> -----------

Well, that is useful too, but quite different from what the OP asked for
(their example was a regex from C# with named grouping) -- you can do that
easily in Ruby, as I just demonstrated. =)

If Oniguruma does that also, then that is great! (I haven't looked at
Oniguruma and don't really know what it is.)

Wes