From: Kevin Howe <khowe@...>
Date: 2004-08-18T03:45:58+09:00
Subject: multiple regexp matches

I want to get multiple results of a regexp pattern match, offsets included.
The following code gets the proper results, but does not return offsets:

  str = '<span id="1"> <span>...</span> </span>'
  re = Regexp.new('(<(\/?)span>)', true) # match start or end tag
  print str.scan(re).inspect

The Regexp module will return offsets, but Regexp::match only returns the
first match, so I'm not sure how to get the full list of matches?