From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-04-14T00:20:48+09:00
Subject: Re: perl pos function equivalent in ruby?

Hi,

At Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:53:51 +0900,
John W. Long wrote in [ruby-talk:96846]:
> I know about MatchData. Perl's pos function basically returns the position
> of the end of the current match. Which sounds like MatchData#end, the
> difference is you can set pos so that you specify the begining in the string
> of the next search. I haven't seen anything in Ruby like this.

Use 2nd argument to String#index.

-- 
Nobu Nakada