From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-05-30T17:31:23+09:00
Subject: Re: RegExp question

On 30/05/05, Jens Riedel <JensRie@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to search a text for a specific pattern, then put all matches
> into an array.
> Usually I did this while going through the text line by line, but this
> time there can be more than one match per line.
> 
> How can I achieve this most simple?
> 
> Example:
> 
> 'This is Example_1 in a line in a long text with Example_2 in the
> same line and Example_3 in the next one.'
> 
> Searching for /Example_\d/ should give me an array ("Example_1",
> "Example_2", "Example_3")
> 
> Greetings,
> Jens
> 
> 

Hallo Jens,

irb(main):001:0> 'This is Example_1 in a line in a long text with
Example_2 in the
irb(main):002:0' same line and Example_3 in the next one.'.scan(/Example_\d+/m)
=> ["Example_1", "Example_2", "Example_3"]

gr��e,

Brian

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