Regex group without capture

[S. Robert James]

Is there a way to make a regex group without capturing the group (in
Perl I believe it's possible, can't find any docs how to do this in
Ruby)

 

[Peña, Botp]

From: S. Robert James [mailto:[email protected]] :
# Is there a way to make a regex group without capturing the group (in
# Perl I believe it's possible, can't find any docs how to do this in
# Ruby)

same, preprend "?:" , like (?:<expr_here>), where <expr_here> will not =
be captured

irb(main):006:0> "this is a test".scan /(this).*(test)/
=3D> [["this", "test"]]
irb(main):007:0> "this is a test".scan /(this).*(?:test)/
=3D> [["this"]]
irb(main):008:0> "this is a test".scan /(?:this).*(test)/
=3D> [["test"]]

kind regards -botp