Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: 7stud -- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Match a pattern multiple times, returning matches, captures and offset? Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:53:46 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 15 Message-ID: <9e87ab4e65b386a00d2bed80ffd89a71@ruby-forum.com> References: <4D9B4FBD.9020602@fischer.name> <6d45afa0bb38b1d865423b633e201ee9@ruby-forum.com> <81699e38451e9fd5b75d6c84084309c6@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302292448 42338 65.111.164.187 (8 Apr 2011 19:54:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:54:08 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <81699e38451e9fd5b75d6c84084309c6@ruby-forum.com> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381217 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <9e87ab4e65b386a00d2bed80ffd89a71@ruby-forum.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2547 Brian Candler wrote in post #991686: > 7stud -- wrote in post #991546: >> However, note that >> begin() and end() are the two elements of offset(), which we've already >> discussed above. The idea was to additionally provide the relative >> offsets within a match, not just the absolute offsets within the string. > > That's easy - subtract begin(0) which is the absolute offset of the > start of the match. The "subtraction method" was thoroughly vetted earlier. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.