From: Sarah Allen <sarah@...>
Date: 2010-03-02T10:15:42+09:00
Subject: MatchData captures... expected two items, but got one?

Looking at the MatchData docs:
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/MatchData.html#M001278

It looks like I should be able to get an array from .captures with every
match.  I swear I've done this before, but I was teaching a class today
and couldn't figure out what's going on in this simple example... maybe
I typed something wrong and just need another pair of eyes.


$ irb
>> test = "word1 foo word2"
=> "word1 foo word2"
>> m = test.match /(word.)/
=> #<MatchData "word1" 1:"word1">
>> m.captures
=> ["word1"]

testing the same string and expression in http://www.rubular.com yields
two matches

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin9.7.0]

Can anyone give me a clue?

Thanks in advance,
Sarah
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