From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2000-12-08T08:48:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6920] Re: Equivalent to Perl's /g and pos()?


  In mail "[ruby-talk:6919] Re: Equivalent to Perl's /g and pos()?"
    Minero Aoki <aamine@dp.u-netsurf.ne.jp> wrote:

> > And StringScanner is incompatible because ... it only matches from the
> > front of the string?
> 
> ? StringScanner can do it.
> 
>   s = StringScanner.new( 'aaa bbb ccc' )
>   p s.scan_until /bbb/   #-> "bbb"

sorry, I made mistake(s).

    s = StringScanner.new( 'aaa bbb ccc' )
    p s.scan_until /bbb/   #-> "aaa bbb"
    p s[0]                 #-> "bbb"

is right.


Minero Aoki