MatchData#deconstruct

() -> ::Array[::String?]

deconstruct

static VALUE
match_captures(VALUE match)
{
    return match_array(match, 1);
}

Alias of #captures

Returns the array of captures, which are all matches except m[0]:

Example

m = /(.)(.)(\d+)(\d)/.match("THX1138.")
# => #<MatchData "HX1138" 1:"H" 2:"X" 3:"113" 4:"8">
m[0]       # => "HX1138"
m.captures # => ["H", "X", "113", "8"]

Related: MatchData.to_a.

Ruby version changes

3.2
- MatchData#deconstruct has been added. [Feature #18821]

See also #captures #deconstruct_keys #byteoffset #end also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.3 · 3.2

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