Find both pattern and position of multiple regex matches in Ruby

Question

This should be an easy question but I can\'t find anything about it.

Given a regular expression in Ruby, for every match I need to retrieve the matched patterns

Answer 1

You can access match data within scan like this:

"abcdefghij".scan(/\w/) {p $~}

Answer 2

MatchData

string.scan(regex) do
  $1           # Pattern at first position
  $2           # Pattern at second position
  $~.offset(1) # Starting and ending position of $1
  $~.offset(2) # Starting and ending position of $2
end