Hi,

In message "Re: Bug when rerouting String#gsub with a block using $1?"
    on 03/08/18, Mauricio FernáÏdez <batsman.geo / yahoo.com> writes:

|Now, is there any way to propagate $1??
|We need it if gsub and friends are to be wrapped transparently.

Explicitly?  You can pass the match data and assign it to $~.

							matz.