On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:09:00 +0900, James Edward Gray II
<james / grayproductions.net> wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2004, at 10:01 PM, James Britt wrote:
> "       ãà¡Ö        symbol variables ($1 etc)"
> 
> This one will kill me.  <laughs>  I'm very used to handling my
> substitutions this way, being a Perl guy.  Can I get an example of "The
> Ruby Way" to do a search and replace without these, please?
[...]
> I'm assuming it's because what's going on in these situations isn't
> always immediately obvious to readers of code.  If that's the case
> though, I have to say I disagree with the $1..$9 call.  That's a regex
> standard and downright handy.  It will be missed, by me at least.

No, it's *not* a regex standard. It's a Perl standard. Regex
"standard" is \1, \2, etc. for backreferences. Look at "ri MatchData"
and you'll begin to see the Object behind a Regexp result -- and
that's the Ruby Way to do it.

-austin
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