From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2007-06-03T13:56:05+09:00
Subject: Re: No way of looking for a regrexp match starting from a particular point in a string?

On 6/3/07, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Sun, 3 Jun 2007 12:59:24 +0900,
> Kenneth McDonald wrote in [ruby-talk:254054]:
> > 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.
>
> string.index(regexp, n)
>
> --
> Nobu Nakada
>
>

I think he wanted MatchData objects. The String#index method returns
the index (numeric position of the match). But if all you want are
captures, then index is a good solution.

pth