From: Dan Kohn Date: 2006-03-12T18:58:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Regular Expression Intersection You'll generally get a better answer if you include an example in your question. Also, that link didn't work. If you're asking how to apply two regexps, you can use the scan method to get the results in arrays, and then intersect them with &. string ="hello world"; puts string.scan(/.../) & string.scan(/..l/)