From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-06-04T00:00:18+09:00
Subject: Re: No way of looking for a regrexp match starting from a particular point in a string?

On 6/3/07, Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net> wrote:
> Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> > String#index also sets $~.
> For that matter, so does String#scan.

Hence:
irb(main):001:0> "abcdefabc".scan(/abc/) {puts "#{$~.inspect}, #{$~}"}
#<MatchData:0xb7b0220c>, abc
#<MatchData:0xb7b021e4>, abc
=> "abcdefabc"

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