From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-03-02T10:37:14+09:00
Subject: Re: MatchData captures... expected two items, but got one?

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Sarah Allen <sarah@ultrasaurus.com> wrote:

> 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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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> Not sure what the answer is with match, I usually use scan like this:

test = "word1 foo word2"
m = test.scan(/word./)
m # => ["word1", "word2"]

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