From: makoto kuwata <kwa@...>
Date: 2007-11-26T08:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: specify start postion of Regexp matching

Yukihiro Matsumoto <m...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>
> str.index(/ba/, 5) ?
>

No, String#index returns Fixnum (position), but I want MatchData.

Regexp#match(string, start=0) in Ruby1.9 is the best solution I want.
Is there any plan to implement it into Ruby1.8?

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makoto kuwata