# Named Regular Expressions in Ruby

**URL:** <https://metaruby.com/t/named-regular-expressions-in-ruby/1715>\
**Category:** Learning Ruby\
**Tags:** ruby\
**Created:** [May 31, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://metaruby.com/t/named-regular-expressions-in-ruby/1715 "2018-05-31T11:59:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://metaruby.com/t/named-regular-expressions-in-ruby/1715/1 "2018-05-31T11:59:18Z")

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In this video you’ll learn how to improve your regular expressions by using named groups instead of position-based groups.

This will help you write more expressive regexp, so watch the full video now to learn how to do this.

You can watch here:

[![](https://metaruby.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7fe5f18e27c997152ca1901ce1f4f52ba36d0b03.jpeg "How To Use Named Regular Expression in Ruby!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLqmB6qXRSg)

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