From: Brian Candler Date: 2012-07-07T06:47:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Management of words in a string Hans Mackowiak wrote in post #1067740: > str.scan(/a\w+/).size Clearly wrong. str = "bag of bananas" str.scan(/a\w+/).size => 2 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.