From: Dave Lee <davel@...>
Date: 2004-01-31T06:41:04+09:00
Subject: Re: principle of most suprise


tony summerfelt wrote:
> gah, ruby is doing it to me again:
> 
>  logline=String.new("+ 30 Jan 12:20:09 [3988] addr: x.x.x.x")
>  tda=Array[(logline.split(/\[\d+\]/))]
>  tda.first

another way of writing this code, which you may find more explicit if you
only use tda.first is to use MatchData#pre_match

logline = "+ 30 Jan 12:20:09 [3988] addr: x.x.x.x"
marker = /\[\d+\]/
marker.match(logline).pre_match # equivalent to tda.first from above

Dave