From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2000-12-16T00:28:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7322] Re: Where is /pat/g (Perl) and findall() (Python)?

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Dave Thomas wrote:

> "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?
> 
> Can you should some context too, because it should...

irb(main):003:0> "abc" =~ /(.)/g
SyntaxError: compile error
(irb):3: parse error
(irb):3:in `irb_binding'

I've never seen the /g modifier mentioned anywhere (I think -- ?).


David

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