[erlang-questions] Adoption of perl/javascript-style regexp syntax

[Tony Arcieri]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Richard O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED> wrote:

> It would be nice to tag the matches one wants with atoms rather
> than invisible integers.


I've thought about combining pattern matching with named capture groups,
ala:

/(?<a>f.o)(?<b>b.r)(?<c>b.z)/ = "foobarbaz"

would bind:

a: "foo"
b: "bar"
c: "baz"

If nothing else, I could support the Ruby 1.9 syntax:

>> "foobarbaz".match(/(?<a>f.o)(?<b>b.r)(?<c>b.z)/)[:b]
=> "bar"

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Tony Arcieri
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