Hi,

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>     on 00/03/30, schneik / us.ibm.com <schneik / us.ibm.com> writes:
>
> |The only problem I have with this example is that scan is going through
the
> |work of producing an array of arrays, even though I only want the first
> |match:
>
> a)
>
>   x="aabbbccccdddeeeefffabcdeabcdeabcde"
>   (dummy, t, u, v) = /(a+)[^ace]*(c+)[^e]*(e+)/.match(x).to_a

That's good news.

Hmm, how could I have missed this?

Can't seem to find a match for a match method anywhere in the Ruby 1.4
Reference Manual.

Conrad Schneiker
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