From: Dan Schmidt <dfan@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T13:56:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl multiple match RE in Ruby?

michael libby <x@ichimunki.com> writes:

| Have this in Perl, would prefer it in Ruby.
| 
| my @A = ($_[0] =~ /([-.]|\d+|[^-.\d]+)/g);
| 
| Need to take String and get Array of all successive matches against string.

You're in luck: 

$_[0].scan( /([-.]|\d+|[^-.\d]+)/ )

You can also pass String#scan a block to execute on each match.  See
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_string.html#String.scan for
details.

Dan

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