On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:55, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> There's a simple solution, and I'll probably open an RCR about this
> if others agree with it. String#scan, #sub, and #gsub should yield
> MatchData objects, not Strings. 
[snip]

Agree.. this would be nice..  I think I have seen an RCR about it long time 
ago (but I cannot locate that RCR).

btw: my ruby regexp engine does so.. it yields matchdata instead of string.
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/regexp/


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Simon Strandgaard