Ruby String#scan equivalent to return MatchData

Question

As basically stated in the question title, is there a method on Ruby strings that is the equivalent to String#Scan but instead of returning just a list of each match, it would r

Answer 1

memo = []
"foo _bar_ _baz_ hashbang".scan(/_[^_]+_/) { memo << Regexp.last_match }
 => "foo _bar_ _baz_ hashbang"
memo
 => [#, #]