From: Ale Ds <alexdesi@...>
Date: 2009-10-28T23:46:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp: rubular VS match. Why is the result different ?

> The "+" at the end is superfluous because this would match multiple
> concatenated sequences like <xx><yyy> which you want as separate
> items.
...
I agree with you

> 
>> I have run it in irb:
>>>> /(<([^<>]+)>)+/.match('anystring<hour>anystring<min>anystring<sec>anystring')
>> => #<MatchData "<hour>" 1:"<hour>" 2:"hour">
>>>>
>> As you can see match method return just the first match in MatchData obj
>>
>> Do you know why ?
> 
> That's the difference between #match and #scan.  You want scan in your 
> code.
...

yes, scan works !
thanks a lot,
Alessandro
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