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

If you don't need to get MatchDatas back, here's a way using StringScanner.

require 'strscan'

rxp = /_[^_]+_/
scanner = StringScanner.new "foo _barrrr_ _baz_ hashbang"
match_infos = []
until scanner.eos?
  scanner.scan_until rxp
  if scanner.matched?
    match_infos << {
      pos: scanner.pre_match.size,
      length: scanner.matched_size,
      match: scanner.matched
    }
  else
    break
  end
end

p match_infos
# [{:pos=>4, :length=>8, :match=>"_barrrr_"}, {:pos=>13, :length=>5, :match=>"_baz_"}]