From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T08:14:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question?

Lei Wu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to translate the following Perl code into Ruby:
> 
> @captures = ($text =~ /company=(.+)/g)
> 
> Basically, the Perl version uses the g modifier to capture all
> occurrence of the matches in () and put them into an array.
> 
> How do I do this in Ruby?

match_data = text.match( /company=(.+)/ )  # see [0]

You can then treat your MatchData [1] object like an array and access 
matches like:

match_data[0]

HTH,

Zach

[0] - http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M001335
[1] - http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/MatchData.html