binding a reference to a variable

[Fredrik Lundh]

Andrew Koenig wrote:

> The point of this example is the . operator, which takes a pattern
> (by value) as its left argument and a variable (by reference) as its
> right argument.  The result is a pattern that matches the same strings
> as the left argument, but if the match is successful, it assigns
> the substring matched to the variable that is the right argument.

you could of course use a RE-like approach:

    m = match(name, pos(0) + break("@", "id") + "@" + rpos(0, "domain"))
    if m:
        print m.group("id", "domain")
        # or perhaps: print m.id, m.domain

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