# Regex for capturing images

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regex-for-capturing-images/154414>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 29, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regex-for-capturing-images/154414 "2008-11-29T00:19:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![ponto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@ponto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ponto)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regex-for-capturing-images/154414/1 "2008-11-29T00:19:32Z")

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ok, i’ve written this regex:  
/(https?:(?😕_\w_._-_)\*(?:.gif|.jpg|.bmp|.png|.jpeg))/i

i’ve tested it on rubular.

and for this example text:

[![](http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/thum/figurename1010-thumb.jpg)](http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/figurename1010.jpg) some text

rubular outputs me this:  
Match captures:  
Result 1

1. [http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/figurename1010.jpg](http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/figurename1010.jpg)  
Result 2
2. 

[http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/thum/figurename1010-thumb.jpg](http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/thum/figurename1010-thumb.jpg)

but in my code:  
matchdata =  
text.match(/(https?:(?😕_[a-zA-Z]_._-_\d\*)\*(?:.gif|.jpg|.bmp|.png|.jpeg))/i).captures  
puts matchdata.size

size prints me “1”.

am i capturing wrong?

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**Author:** ![ponto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@ponto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ponto)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regex-for-capturing-images/154414/2 "2008-11-29T02:15:03Z")

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> but in my code:  
> matchdata =  
> text.match(/(https?:(?😕_[a-zA-Z]_._-_\d\*)\*(?:.gif|.jpg|.bmp|.png|.jpeg))/i).captures  
> puts matchdata.size
> 
> size prints me “1”.
> 
> am i capturing wrong?

use text.scan() which matches all occurences

p  
text.scan(/(https?:(?😕_\w_._-_)\*(?:.gif|.jpg|.bmp|.png|.jpeg))/im)

=\> [[“[http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/figurename1010.jpg](http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/figurename1010.jpg)”],  
[“[http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/thum/figurename1010-thumb.jpg](http://sub-domain.domain.net/path/folder/thum/figurename1010-thumb.jpg)”]]

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**Author:** ![ponto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/958977/32.png) [@ponto](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ponto)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 11:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/regex-for-capturing-images/154414/3 "2009-04-20T11:48:45Z")

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