From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-08-01T08:49:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple matching with ()*

On 7/31/07, Alessandro Re <akirosspower@gmail.com> wrote:
> while i need to be sure that the pattern begins with a regex "x" and
> ends with "z"
>
> (of course, x 1 a 2 b 3 c should be regexes not just chars)
>
Sorry, I misunderstood what you wanted.
Is this more like it?

str = "lol1a2vasd"
m = /^(\w{3})(.*)(\w{3})$/.match(str).captures
m[1] = m[1].scan(/\d\w/)
p m.flatten #>  ["lol","1a","2v","asd"]

Harry

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