From: Brian Candler Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: String.gsub with regex and block Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 02:20:33 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2c0ba6e5af22438debe7a3697d89a2c8@ruby-forum.com> References: <0be3e165974797b12de3053911b6f7e2@ruby-forum.com> <1302190574.20448.1.camel@raker.ateb.com> <20110407165203.GB14421@guilt.hydra> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302247457 62123 65.111.164.187 (8 Apr 2011 07:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:24:17 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20110407165203.GB14421@guilt.hydra> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381181 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <2c0ba6e5af22438debe7a3697d89a2c8@ruby-forum.com> Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!feed.ac-versailles.fr!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2515 Chad Perrin wrote in post #991517: > . . . so, is there some way to use more descriptive variable names than > the default $1, $2, et cetera, for captures from within a regex? I'm > not > aware of any, but I too would find that agreeable. Yes, ruby 1.9 has named capture groups. I posted an example earlier in this thread. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.