Code Snippets

tags:
CaptureRegex

Regex Named Captures in Ruby

Use named captures and MatchData to extract fields.

Author: chris

// Language: Ruby 

text = "user=chris id=42"

if m = text.match(/user=(?<user>\w+)\s+id=(?<id>\d+)/)
  puts "user: #{m[:user]}"
  puts "id:   #{m[:id]}"
end