At Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:55:52 -0400,
Jonathan Aseltine <aseltine / cs.umass.edu> wrote:

> x = "a.b c.d"
> x.gsub!(/(\w).(\w)/) {|i, j| <do something with the matched
> subexpressions>}

> Right now, Ruby only gives the entire matched string to the block.

Try this:
	x.scan(/(\w)\.(\w)/) { |i| p i }

i holds Array of matched groups, so you can retrieve each group via
its indices.

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