From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-08-18T03:51:52+09:00
Subject: Re: multiple regexp matches

Instead of using str.scan(re) use:

re.match( str );

which returns a MatchData object. You can use the MatchData object's 
offset method to find your results.....i do believe.

Zach

Kevin Howe wrote:

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