From: Fleck Jean-Julien <jeanjulien.fleck@...>
Date: 2010-01-04T17:16:33+09:00
Subject: Re: how to capture all conditions using regex

> irb(main):001:0> x="123 456 789"
> => "123 456 789"
>
> irb(main):003:0> if /\d{3}/ =~ x
> irb(main):004:1>   puts $&
> irb(main):005:1> end
> 123
>
>
> For the statement above, I want to capture all "123" and "456" and
> "789", not the only "123".
> How to do it (must use regex)? Thanks.

Try to use the block version of gsub:

>> x.gsub(/\d{3}/) {|m| puts m}
123
456
789

Cheers,

-- 
JJ Fleck
PCSI1 Lycée Kléber