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From: Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: String.gsub with regex and block
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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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