From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-04-14T01:04:11+09:00
Subject: Re: perl pos function equivalent in ruby?


<nobu.nokada@softhome.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:200404131520.i3DFKlQN003599@sharui.nakada.niregi.kanuma.tochigi.jp...
> 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.

I wonder what he needs that for.  Often that can be dealt with by changing
the RX in a way that String#scan is sufficient.

    robert