From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T06:35:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there something like Regexp#match_all

From: Andi Schacke
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 2:27 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Is there something like Regexp#match_all
> 
> is there a possibility to return all the matches of a regexp? or in
> other words is there a way to apply a block to all matches at once?
> Something like String#gsub but where I can specifiy what to 
> do with the
> matches...

See String#scan. It and #gsub both accept a block.