From: Jeremy Stephens <redmine@...>
Date: 2008-11-11T06:42:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19785] [Feature #739] Regexp#match with position

Feature #739: Regexp#match with position
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/739

Author: Jeremy Stephens
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
Target version: 1.9.1

Regexp#=~ returns the position of the match.  Regexp#match lets you search a string from a certain position.  It would be great if Regexp#match also returned the position along with MatchData.  In the current version (ruby-1.9.1-preview1), rb_reg_match_m already finds the position via reg_match_pos, but it doesn't return it.  It would be trivial to stash the position somewhere in the return value.

I suppose you could either create an attribute reader in MatchData for position, or maybe Regexp#match could return an array of length 2, where the first element is the position, and the second is the MatchData object.


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