From: Unmesh Gundecha <upgundecha@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T19:51:34+09:00
Subject: Re: String extraction using RegExp

Stefano Crocco wrote:
> Regexp.match and String.match only return the first match. If you want 
> to get
> all matches, you can use either String#scan or class StringScanner. In 
> your
> case, I think the better choice is the former:
> 
> str = 'Page("New User Registration").Frame("New User")'
> str.scan(r1)
> =>  [["New User Registration"], ["New User"]]
> 
> String#scan scans the string for all matches and returns an array of 
> arrays.
> Each subarray contains all the groups for the corresponding match (if 
> the
> regexp doesn't contain groups, then String#scan returns an array of 
> strings,
> each of which is the matched text).
> 
> I hope this helps
> 
> Stefano

Thanks Stefano,

String#scan worked for me.

Cheers!!
Unmesh
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