Nathaniel Talbott
9/19/2003 1:37:00 PM
David Heinemeier Hansson [mailto:david@loudthinking.com] wrote:
> I'm having a hard time finding a way of archiving the functionality
> of PHP's preg_match_all[1] in Ruby. Am I just not looking in the
> right places? I have a string like "SomethingCool SomethingWild
> Something AnotherCool" and want to use a regular expression, like
> /(\w+Cool)/, to get all the *Cool words back in an array
> (["SomethingCool", "AnotherCool"]).
Try String#scan:
"SomethingCool SomethingWild Something AnotherCool".scan(/\b(\S+Cool)\b/)
HTH,
Nathaniel
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