From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2002-12-13T05:29:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Global Regexp Match Mechanism (//g)

dblack@candle.superlink.net writes:

> Hi --
>
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Austin Ziegler wrote:
>
>> I played around with the necessary mechanisms to emulate //g Regexp
>> behaviour in Ruby, but I'm not too happy about how much extra work I
>> would have to do.
>
> What do you consider "extra"? :-)  Usually I just use String#scan
> for that.

In addition to Austin's reasons, String#scan makes lots of little
intermediate strings, which you don't necessarily need.  So there is
an efficiency argument too.