Regex with named capture groups getting all matches in Ruby

Question

I have a string:

s=\"123--abc,123--abc,123--abc\"

I tried using Ruby 1.9\'s new feature \"named groups\" to fetch all named group info:

Answer 1

Chiming in super-late, but here's a simple way of replicating String#scan but getting the matchdata instead:

matches = []
foo.scan(regex){ matches << $~ }

matches now contains the MatchData objects that correspond to scanning the string.