http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:54:04 GMT DZone Snippets: backreference code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5157 This example finds an email subject in a string and passes the value to a variable called 'subject'. <br /><code> <br />subject = (/^Subject\: (.+)$/).match(email)[1] <br /></code> <br />Prior to this code I would have used the following: <br /><code> <br /> email[/^Subject\: (.+)$/] <br /> subject = $1 <br /></code> <br />Reference: <a href="http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5152">Ruby SMTP Server - Save to Database</a> [dzone.com] Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:20:51 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5157 jrobertson (James Robertson)