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10/23/2016

02:48 AM Ruby Bug #12862: Regular Expression Named Group Matching does not work with #{} (Similar? to issue #2778)

Matthew Kerwin wrote:
> Leo Amigud wrote:
> ...
Thank you for the explanation!
Leo Amig0 (Leo Amigud)

10/22/2016

10:59 PM Ruby Bug #12862: Regular Expression Named Group Matching does not work with #{} (Similar? to issue #2778)

Hans Mackowiak wrote:
> it did took me a while to understand what you mean, because the regexp are displayed wrong.
> ...
Sorry, not sure what you mean.
As a matter of fact i can use regexp like:
irb(main):013:0> numbers = '\d+'
... Amig0 (Leo Amigud)

03:46 AM Ruby Bug #12862 (Closed): Regular Expression Named Group Matching does not work with #{} (Similar? to issue #2778)

Loading development environment (Rails 4.2.5)
```
irb(main):001:0> /\$(?<dollars>\d+)\.(?<cents>\d+)/ =~ "$3.67"
=> 0
irb(main):002:0> dollars
=> "3"
```
BUT:
```
irb(main):001:0> numbers = '\d+'
=> "\\d+"
irb(main):002:... Amig0 (Leo Amigud)