From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-06-03T13:46:50+09:00
Subject: Re: No way of looking for a regrexp match starting from a particular point in a string?

On 6/3/07, Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> What I want is just something like regexp.match(string, n), where the
> regexp starts looking for a match at or after position n in the string.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
>

You could match the string but ignore the first part of the match.

str = "abcdefghabcehjjjuabcfjkiabcgdfg"
str =~ /(abc.)/
p $1 # abcd
str =~ /a.*ju(abc.)/
p $1 #abcf

Harry

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