From: Constantine Karnacevych <ruby@...>
Date: 2008-11-29T10:09:56+09:00
Subject: Re: regex for capturing images

> but in my code:
> matchdata =
> text.match(/(https?:(?:\/*[a-zA-Z]*\.*-*\d*)*(?:\.gif|\.jpg|\.bmp|\.png|\.jpeg))/i).captures
> puts matchdata.size
> 
> size prints me "1".
> 
> am i capturing wrong?

use text.scan() which matches all occurences

p 
text.scan(/(https?:(?:\/*\w*\.*-*)*(?:\.gif|\.jpg|\.bmp|\.png|\.jpeg))/im)

=> [["http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/figurename1010.jpg"], 
["http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/thum/figurename1010-thumb.jpg"]]
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