From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-11-10T20:09:03+09:00
Subject: Re: scan returning matchdata

Hi --

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:

> Wouldn't it be more useful if String#scan returned an array of MatchData? 

I don't think so; most of the time, for me anyway, the array elements
are directly useful, and if they were returned embedded in a MatchData
object, I'd just end up having to dig them out.  

> Assuming that back compatibility should be preserved here, could we at least 
> get an alternate method that does so, say #mscan ?

It's pretty easy:

  def mscan(str,re)
    m = []
    str.scan(re) { m << $~ }
    m
  end


David


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