From: Ross Bamford <rosco@...>
Date: 2005-12-19T02:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How to grep the shortly matching in a string

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:45:49 -0000, <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

>> Obviously it doesn't do quite what you want (you need an array) but  
>> that part should be easy to add...
>
> scan returns an array, so just grab it:
>
>    results = s.scan(/.../).flatten  # flatten because of the ()'s
>

I _knew_ I was missing something.

In mitigation, I'd like to say that it was my first mail-check of the day.
Unfortunately, it makes no difference because I'd completely forgotten  
about scan (etc) with no block anyway, so I had it returning the string :P

Thanks, David :)

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk