From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2010-02-07T02:47:27+09:00
Subject: match/scan does not return multiple matches

Hello

I tried scanning for multiple occurences of a group in a string and
match/scan would return only one.


"ajabcabck".match /^a*j(?:b*(a+)b+c*)+k$/
=> #<MatchData "ajabcabck" 1:"a">

"ajabcabck".scan /^a*j(?:b*(a+)b+c*)+k$/
=> [["a"]]


clearly the a+ group must match twice to match the string from ^ to $
but only single match is returned.

It is possible to use split instead but using a single match would be
much nicer.

Any workaround?

ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i486-linux]


Thanks

Michal