Uh, duh.  Thanks for pointing out the obvious to me.  I keep thinking
that to_a is to convert to alphanumeric, like inet_ntoa() in C.  I'll
get over that sooner or later..

louie

> At Thu, 5 Oct 2000 04:26:40 +0900,
> Louis A. Mamakos <louie / TransSys.COM> wrote:
> > So, I was regexp'ing away just now, and noted a MatchData method missing which
> > would be very useful (at least to me).  I was doing something like this:
> > 
> > re = Regexp.compile("([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F])([0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F])")
> > match = re.match(someRandomString)
> > foo = match.slice(1,2).join(':')
> > 
> > which of course didn't work.  I had assumed that since MatchData had
> > a [] method, it might also support some other array-like functionality.  Is
> > there a way to extract an array of the matched results from a MatchData
> > object?
> 
> to_a is your friend:
> 
> 	foo = match.to_a.slice(1,2).join(':')
> 
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