Monday, 21 August 2017

regex - How do I get the match data for all occurrences of a Ruby regular expression in a string?

I need the MatchData for each occurrence of a regular expression in a string. This is different than the scan method suggested in Match All Occurrences of a Regex, since that only gives me an array of strings (I need the full MatchData, to get begin and end information, etc).



input = "abc12def34ghijklmno567pqrs"

numbers = /\d+/

numbers.match input # # (only the first match)
input.scan numbers # ["12", "34", "567"] (all matches, but only the strings)


I suspect there is some method that I've overlooked. Suggestions?

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