From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-09-12T03:26:45+09:00
Subject: Re: String iterate through regex matches with possition

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Vicente Bosch <vbosch@gmail.com> wrote:

See Jan's reply for obtaining the position.

> Maybe I should not even be using scan ?

If you need to process the content in between then you could also use #split:

m = string.split /((?:SP)\s(?:NL\s)*EP)/

(When #split is used with capturing groups those are retained in the
resulting array.)

Kind regards

robert

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