From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-06-12T19:55:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Newby Ruby Regular Expression Question

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Ruchira Bomiriya
<ruchira.bomiriya@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> 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)

maybe String#scan does the same, sorry my perl times are too remote

str = "AaAbAcAd"
md = str.scan /A/

HTH
Robert



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