Named backreferences with Oniguruma

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To 1.8.x. I guess I'm a little confused. If I've installed Oniguruma
properly, should MatchData# allow symbols or not for 1.8.x?

Thanks,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobu@ruby-lang.org [mailto:nobu@ruby-lang.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:13 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Named backreferences with Oniguruma

Hi,

At Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:35:18 +0900,
Daniel Berger wrote in [ruby-talk:204267]:
> >> I'm trying to figure out how to get at named backreferences with
> >> Oniguruma, but I'm having some problems figuring it out. Here's
> >> the interface I would *like* to have:
> >
> > MatchData# in 1.8 doesn't take symbols.
> >
>
> Couldn't it be added? I mean, it's a custom re.c anyway, isn't it?

To which? Oniguruma doesn't contain the patch for 1.8?

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Hi,

At Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:30:39 +0900,
Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:204281]:

> > >> I'm trying to figure out how to get at named backreferences with
> > >> Oniguruma, but I'm having some problems figuring it out. Here's
> > >> the interface I would *like* to have:
> > >
> > > MatchData# in 1.8 doesn't take symbols.
> > >
> >
> > Couldn't it be added? I mean, it's a custom re.c anyway, isn't it?
>
> To which? Oniguruma doesn't contain the patch for 1.8?

To 1.8.x. I guess I'm a little confused. If I've installed Oniguruma
properly, should MatchData# allow symbols or not for 1.8.x?

No, Oniguruma contains the patch for ruby 1.8.4, but it's only
for just replacement old regexp engine. Named capture is
relatively newer feature so you'd have to ask Kosako-san.
Possibly, it might work by copying re.c from 1.9, though I
haven't tried it.

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