From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-03-05T08:16:42+09:00
Subject: Re: printing regex results

"Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net> wrote in post #985525:
> 2011/3/4 New C. <coding25@yahoo.com>:
>> My code is:
>>
>> str = "aaaDDDbDDDcDDDgHHyHjHJkkjUUh"
>> arr = str.scan(/([A-Z])\1{2}[a-z]\1{3}/)
>> print arr
>>
>> The match is DDDbDDD but the arr prints only the first letter D.
>> How do I get it to print the full string ("DDDbDDD")?
>
> I don't know why, but using [] rather than #scan does the work:
>
> str = "aaaDDDbDDDcDDDgHHyHjHJkkjUUh"
> arr = str[ /([A-Z])\1{2}([a-z])\1{3}/ ]
> print arr
>
> => "DDDbDDD"

...but:

puts arr.class

--output:--
String

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