From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T06:36:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there something like Regexp#match_all

On 12/11/06, Andi Schacke <memberships.andi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

These things are actually two different things.

1. Look at String#scan
2. Look at String#gsub with the block form and use Regexp::last_match
(it's a thread-local value, IIRC).

-austin
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