From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-12-12T09:22:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Find every location of "th" in string.

Hi --

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Jamis Buck wrote:

> 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 $& + $' }

I think he wanted the offsets, which could be gotten at like this:

  "the thin man thinks".scan(/th/) { p $~.offset(0)[0] }


David

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