From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-07T14:23:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6877] Re: Equivalent to Perl's /g and pos()?

"Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:

> Well everything in it is going to be fairly easy to translate
> except the ability to loop over matches of an RE.

Would String#scan do what you want (sorry, but I gave up reading
through all the code on the page you referenced)?

   "the cat in the hat".scan(/.[aeiou]./) do |match|
     puts match
   end


   he 
   cat
    in
   he 
   hat


http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_string.html#scan


Dave