From: Glenn Parker <glenn.parker@...>
Date: 2004-12-13T00:10:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Find every location of "th" in string.

Robert Klemme wrote:
>>> "the thin man thinks".scan( /th/ ) { puts $`.length }
> 0
> 4
> 13
> => "the thin man thinks"

scan doesn't really do that well.

"banana".scan(/ana/) { puts $`.length }
1
=> "banana"

The second overlapping occurence of "ana" is missed.

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