From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T08:06:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Building an array of matching strings.

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On 11/20/05, Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> wrote:
>
> I want to search through a block of text and build an array of all
> strings contained within this text that match a given pattern. I know
> the following hack will work, but it seems like a misuse of the gsub
> method:
>
> # Assume that 'text' contains the block of text and that 'pat'
> # is a Regexp instance containing the pattern to match.
>
> matchingStrings =3D []
> text.gsub(pat) {
> |m|
> matchingStrings << m
> }
>
> Is there a cleaner and elegant way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> Lloyd Zusman
> ljz@asfast.com
> God bless you.


I think what you want is matchingStrings =3D text.scan(pat)

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