From: "Rodrigo B. de Oliveira" <rbo@...>
Date: 2003-09-28T04:49:55+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp needed to split letters from numbers

Thanks! Really beautiful.

Rodrigo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel VanderWerf" <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU>


> ...
> 
> String#[]=, as in "s1[pat] = s2", is a destructive slice operator. It 
> replaces the first match of pat with the r.h.s. (raising IndexError if 
> no match).
> 
> In this case, pat is /(?=\d+ mg)/, which has a lookahead pattern 
> (?=...)...
>