From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2008-02-24T18:21:35+09:00
Subject: Re: difference between StringScanner#scan and Regexp#match

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:44 PM, makoto kuwata <kwa@kuwata-lab.com> wrote:
> Michael Fellinger <m.fellin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > input = 'foo 123'
>  > if (input =~ /\d+/) == 0
>  >   p $& # doesn't happen
>  > end
>
>  thank you Michael, but it is slow and not efficient, especially input
>  string is long, I think.

You are right of course, but i don't know any other way, =~ is about
as fast as you can get already without modifying the regular
expression.

>
>  --
>  regards,
>  makoto kuwata
>
>