From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2010-02-10T03:48:09+09:00
Subject: Re: match/scan does not return multiple matches

On 9 February 2010 19:27, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
>> Actually, nested capturing is also supported as you can see from the
>> examples here. What is not supported is returning multiple matches for
>> a group that matches multiple times.
>
> Are you sure it matches multiple times?  As I mentioned earlier in the
> thread, I can't get it to do so.

(stuff)+ matches multiple stuffs but returns only one.

 "stuffstuffstuff".match /^(stuff)+$/
=> #<MatchData "stuffstuffstuff" 1:"stuff">

Still can be nested.

"stuffstuffstuff".match /^(stu(ff))+$/
=> #<MatchData "stuffstuffstuff" 1:"stuff" 2:"ff">

Thanks

Michal