From: david karapetyan <dkarapetyan@...>
Date: 2007-08-06T14:51:58+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing all matches using regex

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look up gsub! for the String class. you can write

  some_string.gsub(/href=\"([^\"]+)\"/) do |match|
    ## do stuff with match
  end

i'm pretty sure the above code will work for what you are trying to do.

On 8/5/07, Spike Grobstein <spike666@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all
>
> so, I primarily use PERL for creating shell scripts but I'm trying to
> learn ruby since it feels like it could do more of what I want with
> cleaner code. I especially like the way it has regex built right in.
>
> I'm running into an issue though, because in perl, I can do this:
>
> while (/href=\"([^\"]+)\"/) {
> ## do stuff...
> }
>
> I use this simple regex because it's based around what I use this style
> for the most.
>
> I can't figure out how to that in ruby. how can I iterate over all
> matches in a string? I could split the lines, but sometimes there may be
> two or more matches on a single line.
>
> is there a nice, clean, ruby way to do this?
>
> Thanks!
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