Can you do global match regular expressions?

Rails
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I cant figure out how to do global regular expressions in ruby. Im not
even sure if its possible. In the “Programming Ruby” book there is no
mention of it.

Can you do this?

text = “aaa1 bbb2 ccccc3 dddddd4 eee5”

re = /\w+\d{1}/

matches = re.match text

m[0] = “aaa1”
m[1] = nil
m[2] = nil
and so on…

Is there any way to get an array of all the matches??

Thanks
Chris

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Hello Chris,

2006/5/5, Chris R. [email protected]:

Is there any way to get an array of all the matches??

Take a look String#scan. Returns an array or calls into a block with
each match.

Bye !

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On Fri, 5 May 2006, Chris R. wrote:

I cant figure out how to do global regular expressions in ruby. Im not
even sure if its possible. In the “Programming Ruby” book there is no
mention of it.

They’re listed as “regular expressions” in the index. See p69 in
Programming Ruby, 2nd edition.

There is also a Regexp class, described on page 600 in the “Built-in
classes and modules” chapter. More interestingly, see MatchData on
p537.

m[2] = nil
and so on…

Is there any way to get an array of all the matches??

str = ‘This is a fun string!’
re = /(his).(un).(in).*/
matches = re.match(str)

matches[1 … matches.length].each { |m| puts m }

Note that matches[0] contains the full string that matched, so is not
part
of what you want, but 1 … length will be.

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