From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-04-02T23:27:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp Capture Access

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Oliver Saunders
<oliver.saunders@gmail.com> wrote:
> Given that:
>
>  %r{(\w,)+}.match('a,b,c')[0] #=> "a,b,"
>
>  and
>
>  %r{(\w,)+}.match('a,b,c')[1] #=> "b,"
>
>  How do I access the capture that contains "a,"?
>  --
>  Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Use scan

"a,b,c".scan(/\w+,/) --> ['a,', 'b,']
and in order to have the whole match you have to join the result of scan again.

HTH
Robert

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