Match

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

Coercing a Match value with 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