From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-06-03T14:30:46+09:00
Subject: Re: No way of looking for a regrexp match starting from a particular point in a string?

Hi,

At Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:56:05 +0900,
Patrick Hurley wrote in [ruby-talk:254059]:
> 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.

String#index also sets $~.

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Nobu Nakada