From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T09:09:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question?

Hi,

Am Freitag, 18. Feb 2005, 08:12:49 +0900 schrieb James Edward Gray II:
> On Feb 17, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Lei Wu wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> captures = text.scan(/company=(.+)/)

As far as I see, `+' is greedy. Further, you don't need the
grouping. May this is better:

  captures = text.scan /company=\S+/

Bertram


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