From: "A. S. Bradbury" <asbradbury@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T21:10:37+09:00
Subject: Re: How about Enumerable#find_pattern?

On Sunday 10 September 2006 13:03, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> #find, yes, but #grep does something similar to what I understand you
> to be describing:
>
> %w{a b c}.grep(/./)
> => ["a", "b", "c"]
> irb(main):002:0> str = "a\nb\nc"
> => "a\nb\nc"
> irb(main):003:0> str.grep(/./)
> => ["a\n", "b\n", "c"]
>

I'm thinking this:
foo=[1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,2,1]
foo.find_pattern(5,6,5) #=> 4 (position of the start of this pattern)

Alex