On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:16 PM, RichardOnRails <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Below are two tests of using MatchData. The first is essentially Hal > Futon's taken from The Ruby Way, 2nd. ed. [Thanks, Hal]. In > particular, m[0] returns the string being searched. > > The 2nd is my humble use. For mine, m[0] returns the search pattern, > it seems, > > I can't anything in the code to account for this difference. I'm > expecting the first kind of response in a Rails app I'm working on, > but I'm getting the second kind of response. > > Any ideas?
m[0] doesn't return the string being searched, it returns everything which the entire pattern matched. In the first case /(.+[aiu])(.+[aiu])(.+[aiu])(.+[aiu])/i entirely matches "Fujiyama" in the second case /noun/i only matches a portion of the string, so that's what is the value of m[0] -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
