From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-02-18T09:12:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression question?

Zach Dennis wrote:
> 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?

I think I misunderstood the question, but after rereading Jame's and 
Bertram's post I think I see what Lei Wu was looking for.

Zach

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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