extract numbers from a string



"The car costs $1000 and the cat costs $10".scan(/\d+/) do |x|
  puts x
end

1.	uses \d to match any digit, and the + that follows \d makes \d match as many digits in a row as possible.
2.	scan through all the vowels in a string: [aeiou] means "match any of a, e, i, o, or u."
3.	specify ranges of characters inside the square brackets
4.	Scan as split
5.	Splitting Sentences into Words
6.	scan a here document
7.	Scan for \w+
8.	Scan() string with hex value
9.	scan(/./u) string with hex value
10.	Count words for a string with quotation marks
11.	Just like /\w+/, but doesn't consider underscore part of a word.
12.	Anything that's not whitespace is a word.
13.	Accept dashes and apostrophes as parts of words.
14.	A pretty good heuristic for matching English words.

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