From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-03-02T20:42:13+09:00
Subject: Re: MatchData captures... expected two items, but got one?

2010/3/2 Sarah Allen <sarah@ultrasaurus.com>:
> Josh Cheek wrote:
>>> 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"]
>
> Thanks Josh.  I should have mentioned that I found that work-around.  I
> 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.

Where exactly is the difference between the functionality and the description?

Kind regards

robert

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