From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-11-26T14:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: specify start postion of Regexp matching

What's the difference between 1.9 Regexp#match(string, start=n) and
1.8 Regexp#match(string[n..-1])?? You have to create a sub-string with
the 1.8 version, but according to Robert Klemme (above) it's just
creating a pointer into the original string if you're not changing the
substring or original string. Besides, even if you did get a copy,
it's anonymous and should be garbage collected soon. If I understand
everything correctly, the 1.9 version would just basically be a
convenience feature over the 1.8 way?

$ irb19
irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.0"
irb(main):002:0> m = /oo/.match("foo", start=1)
=> #<MatchData "oo">
irb(main):003:0> m[0]
=> "oo"

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.6"
irb(main):002:0> m = /oo/.match("foo"[1..-1])
=> #<MatchData:0xb78777a8>
irb(main):003:0> m[0]
=> "oo"

Regards,
Jordan