From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-08-18T05:25:21+09:00
Subject: Re: multiple regexp matches

This should do what you want.

-austin

str = '<span id="1"> <span>...</span> </span>'
re = /(<(\/?)span>)/i

str.scan(re) # => [["<span>", ""], ["</span>", "/"], ["</span>", "/"]]

matches = []
str.scan(re) do
  matches << Regexp.last_match
end

matches.each do |match|
  match.captures.each_with_index do |capture, ii|
    soff, eoff = match.offset(ii + 1)
    puts %Q("#{capture}" #{soff} .. #{eoff})
  end
end