Ruby reg exp matching question

[nacrotek]

Is it possible to get a complete list of matches made from a regular expression?

Here is an example of what I'm trying to do:

sTestStr = "exec Trace_p @Comment = 'this is a test string will it work?"
reTestRE = Regexp.new("(this|work)")

mdMatch = reTestRE.match(sTestStr)
puts mdMatch.to_a()

The output is:
this
this

So it looks like its matching the string twice, but I can't get access to the 'work' match. Can this be done?

 

[futurelet]

Change [tt]puts mdMatch.to_a()[/tt] to [tt]puts mdMatch.captures[/tt]. However, you only have 1 capture.

Try this:
[tt]sTestStr.scan(reTestRE){|s| puts s}[/tt]

 

[nacrotek]

That's what I needed thanks