From: Warren Brown <WBrown@...>
Date: 2004-09-24T02:58:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Matchdata#end one character after match?

T.,

> I know this is probably just the way it works, but I
> was a bit antiPOLSed.
>
> irb(main):016:0> md = /X/.match("yzXrb")
> => #<MatchData:0x402fbe8c>
> irb(main):018:0> p md.begin(0)
> 2
> => nil
> irb(main):017:0> p md.end(0)
> 3
> => nil
>
> 3 and not 2?

irb(main):018:0> md = /(?=X)/.match("yzXrb")
=> #<MatchData:0x28c2dc0>
irb(main):019:0> p md.begin(0)
2
=> nil
irb(main):020:0> p md.end(0)
2
=> nil

    Does it make more sense now?

    - Warren Brown