ruby - Not sure why regex is not working -

i have following regex:

a=/item\/([0-9]+)\)/.match("item/123) , item/245)") 

i'm trying pull out item ids of links in string, like:

 [123,245]  

but returns

<matchdata "item/123)" 1:"123"> 

(ie first). how can make return both ids (either part of 2 matchdata or via other method)? think need specify greedy not sure.

you below using scan:

if pattern contains no groups, each individual result consists of matched string, $&. if pattern contains groups, each individual result array containing 1 entry per group.

"item/123) , item/245)".scan(/item\/([0-9]+)\)/).flatten # => ["123", "245"] s = "item/123) , item/245)" s.scan(/item\/([0-9]+)\)/).flatten.map(&:to_i) # them integers # => [123, 245] 

as have created single capturing group, got 1 result :

a = /item\/([0-9]+)\)/.match("item/123) , item/245)") a.captures # => ["123"] 

look method captures .