From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2000-12-15T22:39:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7315] Re: Where is /pat/g (Perl) and findall() (Python)?

"Franz GEIGER" <fgeiger@datec.at> writes:
>Wanted to do global pattern search on a string but /pat/g does not work. 
>How
>is this done in Ruby?
>
>Thanks in advance and best regards
>Franz GEIGER

You have already been pointed to gsub and scan.  However if you
want to loop over matches to a string you can also loop over
matches using index.  It is not as transparent as Perl's /g
construct, but it wouldn't be hard to make it so with an
appropriate wrapper class and methods.

Cheers,
Ben
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