From: Andrew Johnson <ajohnson@...>
Date: 2006-04-12T03:31:34+09:00
Subject: Re: regex flags

Tom Allison wrote:

> I frequently use a perl approach of
> 
> while ($arg =~ /(string_thing)/igsm) {
>    #  use $1 here
> }
> to pick out chunks of a string as an iteration through the string.
> This would require a 'g' without the 's'.
> 
> No chance?

Use String#scan:

  arg.scan(/pattern/im) do |it|
    # work on it here
  end

andrew

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