From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-10-26T20:06:56+09:00
Subject: Re: How to return multiple matches in Regexp?

Hi --

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Carl Youngblood wrote:

> I'm used to the perl modifier /.../g that makes sure that a regexp
> matches as many occurrences as possible.  How do you do this in Ruby?

See Holden's reference to gsub; but also, if you don't need to sub
anything, there's String#scan:

  ruby -e 'p "one two three".scan(/\w+/)'
  ["one", "two", "three"]


David

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