in reply to Re^2: Is there a regular expression version of the index function?
in thread Is there a regular expression version of the index function?

Oops. As you demonstrated in your example, $-[0] is what I'm looking for. According to perldoc:

"...$-[0] is the offset into the string of the beginning of the entire match..."

Thanks again.

Richard

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