From: Chris Meyers <chrismmeyers@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T02:29:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Regexp vs Perl and C#

Verno Miller wrote:
> 
> It's a bit tricky but still doable!
> 
> line = "banana"
> 
> If your goal is to match just (an)* in "banana" use:
> 
> line.scan(/((an)*)/) { |str|
> #puts $1.inspect
> puts $1 if $1 != ""
> }

Thank you Verno, that is what I needed.  By using the block syntax I am 
able to get the same output as Perl or C# and I can adapt that to my 
problem at hand.  For anyone interested, to recreate the same output in 
Ruby as my Perl and C# example the following code works:

line="banana"
line.scan(/(an)*/) {
    puts $` + "<<" + $& + ">>" + $' + "\n"
}

Thanks again, Chris

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