Match

Represents a single matched span within a string. Match objects are returned by indexing a Captures value.

Coercing a Match value to str produces the matched text.

Fields

start

The byte offset of the start of the match within the haystack.

Type: int

end

The byte offset of the end of the match within the haystack.

Type: int

let date = Regex r"(?<year>\d{4})-(?<month>\d{2})-(?<day>\d{2})"
let caps = date.match "prefix 2024-03-15 suffix"

let year = caps["year"]
echo year          # => 2024
echo $year.start   # => 7
echo $year.end     # => 11