Ruby Regexp group matching, assign variables on 1 line

Question

I\'m currently trying to rexp a string into multiple variables. Example string:

ryan_string = \"RyanOnRails: This is a test\"

I\'ve mat

Answer 1

scan() will find all non-overlapping matches of the regex in your string, so instead of returning an array of your groups like you seem to be expecting, it is returning an array of arrays.

You are probably better off using match(), and then getting the array of captures using MatchData#captures:

g1, g2, g3 = ryan_string.match(/(^.*)(:)(.*)/i).captures

However you could also do this with scan() if you wanted to:

g1, g2, g3 = ryan_string.scan(/(^.*)(:)(.*)/i)[0]