Re: reg multi match replace

David A. Black wrote:

>Hi --
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>On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Paul Vudmaska wrote:
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>>David A. Black wrote:
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>>>Another small suggestion:  it doesn't look like you need two captures (unless
>>>you're doing something with $1 that isn't revealed here):
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>>> @value.gsub!(/(\{\{(.+?)\}\})/) { @values[$1] }
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>>>                     ^^^ 
>>>                     (or \w+? if wanted)
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>>>
>>>David
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>>Thanks David, Soon after i fired the email i noticed it did not work on 
>>lines with 2 tokens {{one}} {{two}} so adding the ? worked great!  About 
>>the inner capture, the outer one matched {{match}} and i needed just the 
>>name - match - which matches the hash i pass to the template 
>>{'match'=>'match value'}. Using @values[$2] matched the inner one. To be 
>>honest, i did not know what $2 was, when i was considering my 
>>options(like replacing {}), but then i thot "there's a $1 there must be 
>>a $2" - and it worked after i put the inner capture.  i thot it was 
>>great -and  a testament to the goodness of all this! The names that will 
>>be in the tokens and hashes will be like 'name', 'client.name'. So per 
>>your suggestion  i changed it to /(\{\{([\w\.]+?)\}\})/ which 
>>accomodates the dot and is more concise to boot. Appreciate your help :0)
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>The thing is, you don't need an inner and outer match in the first
>place, if all you want is the inner stuff.  You're just saving an
>extra piece of data that you're not using.
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>David
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Right, David, now i see that - pretty cool, thanks! :P