From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-04T05:05:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Block with Regexp#match

Hello --

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, George Ogata wrote:

> Since Regexp#match so far does not use a block, why not extend it to
> iterate over all the (non-overlapping) matches in the string?  I think
> the following sums up what I mean:
>
> --------------------
> class Regexp
>   def match(str)
>     if block_given?
>       str.gsub!(self) {|s| yield $~; s}
>       self
>     else
>       old_match(str)  # the current Regexp#match
>     end
>   end
> end
> --------------------
>
> /<(.*?)>/.match('<aaa><bbb><ccc>') {|m| puts m[1]}
>
> ....seems pretty intuitive to me.

I think String#scan would do what you want:

  '<aaa><bbb><ccc>'.scan(/<(.*?)>/)

(with or without block -- see docs)


David

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