From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T19:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there something like Regexp#match_all

On 11.12.2006 23:56, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Andi Schacke wrote:
>> 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>"}
> 
> You don't really need the block form for such a simple replacement.  
> This is the same thing:
> 
> source_string.gsub(regexp, '<span color="red">\&</span>')

... and in fact more efficient IIRC.

	robert