From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T06:15:20+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions question

On Dec 14, 2005, at 3:02 PM, ako... wrote:

> hello,
>
> i need to capture all matches for a group. for example if
>
> 'ab c' =~ /^(.)*$/
>
> i would like to get array [ 'a', 'b', ' ', 'c' ]
>
> could not figure out how to do it in ruby. String#scan did not seem to
> be the right thing. please help.

When using scan(), you need to remove the anchoring:

 >> "ab c".scan(/./)
=> ["a", "b", " ", "c"]

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II