From: Brian Candler <lists@...>
Date: 2012-06-13T14:09:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with reg exp

>   str1 = "ABC12A2012"
>   if str1 =~ /^([a-zA-Z]+)(.*?)((?:KEYWORD)?)$/
>     p $1, $2, $3 # => "ABC", "12A2012", ""
>   end
>
>   str2 = "ABC13B2012KEYWORD"
>   if str2 =~ /^([a-zA-Z]+)(.*?)((?:KEYWORD)?)$/
>     p $1, $2, $3 # => "ABC", "13B2013", "KEYWORD"
>   end
>
> If you don't like using the if-statement structure, you can also use
> String#match , which returns a MatchData object. You can access the
> groups using array syntax:

You can also look at String#scan, if a single string contains multiple 
instances of what you're trying to match.

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