From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-12-07T06:02:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Get Number of regex matches

On 12/6/06, Ingo Weiss <ingoweiss@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can I get the NUMBER of matches for a regular expression in a given
> string?
>
> For example: for string 'Banana' and regex /a/ I should get '3'
> (matches)
>

One way is:
'Banana'.scan(/a/).size

I'm not sure how to get it out of the MatchData returned by 'match' or
=~, unfortunately.