From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T00:53:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Iterating through a string and removing leading characters

On Sunday 03 April 2005 10:16 am, Saynatkari wrote:
> Le 3/4/2005, "Randy Kramer" <rhkramer@gmail.com> a �crit:
> >But, instead of (or maybe in addition to) returning the "Aah", "Bay" in
> > $2, $4 or whatever, how about returning an integer (somehow) that
> > indicates which one matched?
>
> I mentioned this a while ago; I edited my strscan.c to provide
> methods #matched_groups and #first_matched_group for accessing
> this information (I used it to dispatch a block to process a
> particular type of match). I can clean it up and post a patch
> somewhere if it seems a useful feature for other people.

Thanks, I might take you up on that offer, but I'll be busy for 2 to 4 weeks 
with some other things.  After I get back into parsing, I'll get back to you.

(I'm not much at patching, and I'd hate to ask you to do something if I wasn't 
fairly certain I'd be able to use it.  Still, if others see use for it ...)

regards,
Randy Kramer