From: Andi Schacke <memberships.andi@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T07:50:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there something like Regexp#match_all

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 11.12.2006 22:26, Andi Schacke 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...
> 
> What exactly do you want to do with matches?
> 
>   robert

I'd like to build a small web-tool for myself to highlight all the 
matches of a regexp against a specified string (e.g. the matches should 
be in a different color). But I think I found a solution:

source_string.gsub(regexp) {|match| "<span 
style=\"color:red;\">#{match}</span>"}

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