From: Ruchira Bomiriya <ruchira.bomiriya@...>
Date: 2008-06-12T19:44:38+09:00
Subject: Newby Ruby Regular Expression Question

Dear Expert,

I have recently started Ruby programming.  I have used Perl before and
liked it mostly due to the power of regular expressions.  But Ruby's
ability scale and modularize is absolutely amazing.

I want to find FOUR instances of A in the string "AaAbAcAd" using
regular expressions.

I tried

str = "AaAbAcAd"
md = str.match(/(A)/)

and get just one instance (seems like the last 'A')

The perl equivalent of what I really want is

$str = "AaAbAcAd"
@md = ($str =~ /A/g)

So what I really want to find out is if there is something equivalent
to the Perl g option available in Ruby.  How would you get all FOUR
matches in a reasonable way?

Thanks in advance.
Ruchira