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Consider adding support of .first to MatchData object like MatchData[0]

Added by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler) about 9 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

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[ruby-core:67118]

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Hi,

Lately I was using match data

test_string = "

This is heading 6
"

match = /<h\d+>(.+)</h\d+>/.match(test_string)

Then I tried to do this:

puts match.first

It did not work.

puts match[0]

Is the way to go.

My question is:

Would it be consistent to consider adding
support of .first to MatchData as well?

class Array has it - I kind of assumed that
MatchData is a bit similar to Array.

Thanks,

Updated by duerst (Martin Dürst) about 9 years ago

Robert A. Heiler wrote:

Would it be consistent to consider adding
support of .first to MatchData as well?

class Array has it - I kind of assumed that
MatchData is a bit similar to Array.

The question is how similar exactly. What other array methods would you expect? MatchData has a to_a method, so it can be treated as an array. Should it be changed to include Enumerable? Enumerable would have #first, and many other methods.

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