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Ravenstine/match_group_names.rb

Created August 26, 2016 22:56
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Did you know that you can name your match groups in a Regex?
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match_group_names.rb
"https://twitter.com/eh1030/status/12345/photo/1".match(/^(?<url>https?:\/\/twitter\.com\/[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#%?=~_|!:,.;]+\/status(es){0,1}\/(?<tweetId>\d+)\/{0,1})/)
# => #<MatchData "https://twitter.com/eh1030/status/12345/" url:"https://twitter.com/eh1030/status/12345/" tweetId:"12345">
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