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Re: String.gsub with regex and block

From Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.ruby
Subject Re: String.gsub with regex and block
Date 2011-04-07 10:57 -0500
Organization Service de news de lacave.net
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Or if you are a ruby 1.9 user, you could use named capture groups 
instead. I'm not sure they make the regexp itself any clearer in this 
case though:

"John Smith".gsub /(?<name>.+)\s(?<family>.+)/ do
  p [$~[:name],$~[:family]]
end

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String.gsub with regex and block Alexey Petrushin <axyd80@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 10:25 -0500
  Re: String.gsub with regex and block Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com> - 2011-04-07 10:36 -0500
    Re: String.gsub with regex and block Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-08 02:20 -0500
  Re: String.gsub with regex and block Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-07 10:50 -0500
    Re: String.gsub with regex and block 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-07 13:22 -0500
  Re: String.gsub with regex and block Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-07 10:57 -0500
  Re: String.gsub with regex and block 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-07 13:10 -0500
    Re: String.gsub with regex and block Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-07 13:39 -0500
  Re: String.gsub with regex and block jake kaiden <jakekaiden@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-07 15:57 -0500
    Re: String.gsub with regex and block Sergey Avseyev <sergey.avseyev@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 22:09 -0700
  Re: String.gsub with regex and block Alexey Petrushin <axyd80@gmail.com> - 2011-04-08 07:31 -0500

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