From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2008-01-11T07:52:50+09:00
Subject: Re: search pattern

Stefano Crocco wrote:
> Alle gioved狸 10 gennaio 2008, Li Chen ha scritto:
>>
>>
>> seq="5'aaaAAAAAACCCCCCCCTTTTTTTGGGGGGGGG-3'"
>>
>> seq.upcase!# change to upper case
>> puts "old sequence:"
>> puts seq.gsub!(/[^A-Z]/,'')# extract the string
>> puts pattern if seq=~/AC/
>>
>> #how to get the position of pattern in the string?
> 
> String=~ returns the position of the starting of the match, so
> 
> seq=~pattern
> 
> will return what you want.
> 
> Stefano
The size if seq is 33. What I try to do is starting position of "AC" in 
the seq.

How do I calculate the position of it?

Thanks,

Li

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