Re: Find number of matches using Match

Initially I did try this and it didn' work. After trying out the following example:

 [% text = 'no, i do not believe we could not go forward to the sea. I know. no'; %]
So, to get the count:
[% text.match('no', 1).size %]

That should match 5x, yet it shows 1 when I do .size

thanks

--- On Mon, 5/21/12, Ronald J Kimball <rkimball-jkI2qz8QNLsmlAP/[email protected]> wrote:

From: Ronald J Kimball <rkimball-jkI2qz8QNLsmlAP/[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Templates] Find number of matches using Match
To: "Summer" <crazysummer2004-/[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, May 21, 2012, 7:48 PM

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Summer <crazysummer2004-/[email protected]> wrote:

Hey,

I am using the "match" method and I am looking for a regex in a string. For the sake of argument, lets say we are looking for "no" in the following.


testString =""no, i do not believe we could not go forward to the sea. I know. no;

so, 
valHolder = testString.match("(?i:no)");

valHolder.size -> always gives me 1. Yet I am expecting 4 matches.


Is there a way I can know the count of the matches?


http://template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/VMethods.html#method_match

       To perform a global search to match the pattern as many times as it       appears in the source string, provide a true value for the "global"
       argument following the pattern.
           [% text = 'bandanna';              text.match('an+', 1).join(', )      # an, ann
           %]
So, to get the count:
[% text.match('no', 1).size %]


Ronald

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