From: Andrea Dallera <andrea@...>
Date: 2010-04-14T01:55:48+09:00
Subject: Re: How to find multiple matches in a string

Hei,

	s = 'abcde_abcde_abcde'
	m = s.scan(/b/)
	p m # ['b','b','b']

HTH

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Andrea Dallera
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On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 01:51 +0900, Alex DeCaria wrote:
> I know how to use regular expressions to find the first match of a
> pattern in a string.  But, how do I most easily find multiple matches?
> For example, if the string is
> 
> s = 'abcde_abcde_abcde'
> 
> and I want to find the location of ALL the 'b' characters, how do I do
> it?  If I use
> 
> m = s.match(/b/)
> 
> then m.offset(0) => [1,2]
> 
> but I don't have any information about the second or third occurences of
> 'b'.
> 
> --Alex