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i didn't realize that it was possible to name a capturing group. this is an awesome example.

• aaronblohowiak 14y ago
  ruby > 1.9
  • pjscott 14y ago
    Also available in Python's re module, with a syntax that's just different enough to be irritatingly incompatible. >>> import re >>> r = re.compile(r'(?P<month>\d{1,2})\/(?P<day>\d{1,2})\/(?P<year>\d{4})') >>> r.search("Today's date is: 10/23/2012.").groupdict() {'month': '10', 'day': '23', 'year': '2012'}