From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2004-12-12T09:16:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Find every location of "th" in string.

On 09:07 Sun 12 Dec     , William James wrote:
> Find location of every "th" in "the thin man thinks".
> 
> In Icon:
> 
> every write(find("th", "the thin man thinks"))
> 
> In Ruby:
> 
> s='the thin man thinks'
> t='th'
> (0...s.size).each{|x| puts x if s[x,t.size]==t}
> 
> Is there a better way?

Perhaps, if I'm understanding what the Icon snippet does:

  "the thin man thinks".scan( /th/ ) { p $& + $' }

- Jamis

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