From: Rob Partington <rjp@...>
Date: 2003-08-27T06:08:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Specification of Ruby regex?

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:18:24 +0900,
Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel.touzery@wanadoo.fr> 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)?

No, but I patched it a couple of years ago to do so.

http://frottage.org/rjp/ruby/revar.html

> 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".

  string = "text string for this"
  string =~ /(?[foo]st.*?) /
  puts "#{$foo}" # prints "string"

It's nice, but not overly useful in most circumstances.