Re^2: Finding the index of a string with a regexp

That's what I'm looking for, but isn't there any way to get it to return the offset for the beginning of the match instead of the end?

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Re^3: Finding the index of a string with a regexp by bart (Canon) on Sep 09, 2005 at 23:44 UTC
Look at the arrays @- and @+, which point to the start resp. the end of submatches — use index 0 for the whole match. So you want `$-[0]`. Plus: unlike pos, it works without using /g, too. You didn't really think Javascript could do something with regexps that Perl couldn't, did you? Where did you think its implementors got the ideas from, anyway?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Finding the index of a string with a regexp by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Sep 09, 2005 at 23:49 UTC
The first thing that comes to mind is substracting the length of the match, like in: `pos ($state) - length $&` -- David Serrano	[reply] [d/l]