From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2010-03-02T14:57:32+09:00
Subject: Re: MatchData captures... expected two items, but got one?

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Sarah Allen <sarah@ultrasaurus.com> wrote:
> ..just need to be able to explain why match doesn't seem to work the way
> the documentation says it should -- at least by my reading of it.

your match/regex captured only one..
try eg,

> m = test.match /(word.).*?(word.)/
=> #<MatchData "word1 foo word2" 1:"word1" 2:"word2">

> m.captures
=> ["word1", "word2"]