From: fabsy <fabbyfabs@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T07:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: reading website


David Vallner skrev:

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:55:05 +0200, fabsy <fabbyfabs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Aha! Yes it was something old.
> > It opened the file with append..
> >
> > And, sorry for all the questions.. (im really trying to learn) :)
> > But is there any thing like this in ruby?
> >
> > --VB code--
> >
> > If InStr(1, Text1.Text, "String to find", 1) > 0 Then Msgbox "I found
> > the string!"
> >
> > --------
> >
> > ( If InStr(Start,String1,String2,CompareMode)>0 Then Msgbox "I found
> > the string!")
> >
> >
>
> Does VB index strings starting with 1?
>
> For very simple seaching, use String#include?
>
> 	>> "foobar".include? "ooba"
> 	=> true
>
> If you want to check if there's a substring to be found -after- (and not
> including) the second character, for example, then I'd use a substring:
>
> 	>> "foobar"[2..-1].include? "ooba"
> 	=> false
>
> 	>> "foobar"[2..-1].include? "obar"
> 	=> true
>
> What VB's CompareMode is, I have no idea. Case sensitivity? If so, I'd
> personally manually use String#downcase in the conditional.
>
> And, of course, there's always regular expressions, the swiss army knife
> of string searching, but those are for a longer discussion and you can
> probably find material for those out there that explains them rather
> nicely.
>
> David Vallner

Ok!
But that doesn't tell me the position of the string..
Say that you have a textfile with the sentence "Could you pass me the
milk please?" and I make a search for the string "milk". Then I want to
know the position of where the search word starts so I can  extract the
word into a variable.... How do I do that?

And yes VB index strings start with 1..