Bug #13082
Updated by akanet (Vincent Woo) over 7 years ago
Hello, Apologies in advance if this question was addressed already, I could not find any information on it. Regexp#match [provides provides this behavior](https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.0/Regexp.html#method-i-match): behavior: > If the second parameter (pos) is present, it specifies the position in the string to begin the search. So, if you run: say: `/test/.match "a test", 2` it will return a match. This becomes an issue when you try to write a regex to match "if the pattern begins at the specified point in the string". `/^test/.match "a test", 2` Does not return a match. Using `\A` does not work work, either. It's an open question whether this *should* work, but I think it should. I would expect calling match with a position to treat the string passed in as essentially truncated up to that point. I should add that the reason I want it to work this way is that queries like `/test/.match "a longer test", 2` will return a match. My real goal is to find if `/test/` *starts* at position 2, so I do need the special line/string start character. What do you think? Cheers, Vincent