From: Andrea Dallera <andrea@...>
Date: 2010-04-14T02:21:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to find multiple matches in a string

string = "abcde abcde abcde"
sum = 0
result = []
blocks = string.split(/b/)
blocks.pop
blocks.each do |block|
  sum += block.length
  result << sum
  sum += 1
end
p result # [1,7,13]

Don't tell anyone I've written this crap :-)

-- 
Andrea Dallera
http://github.com/bolthar/freightrain
http://usingimho.wordpress.com


On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 02:01 +0900, Alex DeCaria wrote:
> Andrea Dallera wrote:
> > Hei,
> > 
> >   s = 'abcde_abcde_abcde'
> >   m = s.scan(/b/)
> >   p m # ['b','b','b']
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > --
> > Andrea Dallera
> > http://github.com/bolthar/freightrain
> > http://usingimho.wordpress.com
> 
> Thanks Andrea.  But is there a way to also find the locations (indexes) 
> of the 'b' characters?
> 
> --Alex