From: Ross Bamford <rosco@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T06:32:39+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions question

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:00:56 -0000, ako... <akonsu@gmail.com> wrote:

> i need to capture all matches for a group. for example if
>
> 'ab c' =~ /^(.)*$/
>
> i would like to get array [ 'a', 'b', ' ', 'c' ]
>

You could try:

irb(main):001:0> "ab c".split('')			# split on nothing
=> ["a", "b", " ", "c"]

irb(main):002:0> "ab c".split(//)			# same again
=> ["a", "b", " ", "c"]

irb(main):003:0> "ab c".scan(/./)			# scan on any single char
=> ["a", "b", " ", "c"]


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