From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T08:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Building an array of matching strings.


On Nov 20, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Lloyd Zusman 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 = []
>   text.gsub(pat) {
>     |m|
>     matchingStrings << m
>   }
>
> Is there a cleaner and elegant way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>


result_array = text.scan(/pat/)


That will build an array in result_array of all the matches to /pat/


HTH-

-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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