Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news.mixmin.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: 7stud -- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Match a pattern multiple times, returning matches, captures and offset? Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:58:55 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <4D9B4FBD.9020602@fischer.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302134409 58102 65.111.164.187 (7 Apr 2011 00:00:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:00:09 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <4D9B4FBD.9020602@fischer.name> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381081 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2420 You can also get the relative offset like this: str = "_foo_ _bar_" str.scan(/_(\w+)_/) do |curr_match| md = Regexp.last_match whole_match = md[0] captures = md.captures captures.each do |capture| p [whole_match, capture, whole_match.index(capture)] end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.