From: "Aleksi Niemelä" Date: 2000-06-12T16:46:49+02:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:03302] Re: dev.rubycentral.com There's some "normal" :) trash at http://dev.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_matchingdata.html begin mtch.begin( n ) -> anInteger Returns the offset of the start of the n^{:0055:th}:0055: element of the match array in the string. It's at the documentation for 'end' too. And probably elsewhere. BTW. Did I remembr t tll xmpl whr 'match[i] -> anObject' s rplcd wth 'mtch[i] -> anObject' sn't that much shorter but much harder to read. And it seems there's no built-in 'match' so it should be available for use. :) - Aleksi