From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-06-03T14:20:33+09:00
Subject: Re: No way of looking for a regrexp match starting from a particular point in a string?

On 6/3/07, Harry Kakueki <list.push@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

If you want to specify the point in the string by number, you could do this.

str = "abcdefghabcehjjjuabcfjkiabcgdfg"
str =~ /.{10}(abc.).*(abc.)/
p $1 #abcf
p $2 #abcg

Harry


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