From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T03:29:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Stumped:  How do I iterate over regular expression matches?

On Apr 26, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Xeno Campanoli wrote:

> I looked for an iterator, and there may be something, but I don't  
> recognize it.
> I also tried:
> while (x =~ /something/ )
> p $1
>
> end
> and it just printed out the same match over and over.  Perl does  
> this very
> nicely, but google and pickaxe are not helping me do it in Ruby.   
> Sorry if this
> is obvious.

You are looking for String#scan.  Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II