From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-04-14T02:27:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How to find multiple matches in a string

On 4/13/10, Alex DeCaria <alex.decaria@millersville.edu> wrote:
> Andrea Dallera wrote:
>> Hei,
>>
>>   s = 'abcde_abcde_abcde'
>>   m = s.scan(/b/)
>>   p m # ['b','b','b']
>>
>> HTH
>
> Thanks Andrea.  But is there a way to also find the locations (indexes)
> of the 'b' characters?

I think this works:

  s = 'abcde_abcde_abcde'
  i=0
  while i=s.index('b',i)
     do_something_with i
  end