Ruby | StringScanner search_full function

StringScanner#search_full() : search_full() is a StringScanner method which scans the string until the pattern is matched.

Syntax: StringScanner.search_full()

Parameter: StringScanner values
pattern
advance_pointer
return_pointer

Return: matched string if return_string_p is true otherwise return the number of bytes advanced

Example #1 :

# Ruby code for StringScanner.search_full() method

# loading StringScanner
require 'strscan'

# declaring StringScanner
c = StringScanner.new("Mon Sep 12 2018 14:39")

# search_full() method
c.search_full(/\w+/, 2, 3)

puts "String Scanner result of c.search_full() form : #{c.pos()}\n\n"

# search_full() method
c.search_full(/\s+/, 4, 8)

puts "String Scanner result of c.search_full() form : #{c.pos()}\n\n"

Output :

String Scanner result of c.search_full() form : 3

String Scanner result of c.search_full() form : 4

Example #2 :

# Ruby code for StringScanner.search_full() method

# loading StringScanner
require 'strscan'

# declaring StringScanner
c = StringScanner.new("h ello geeks")

# search_full() method
c.search_full(/\w+/, 2, 3)

puts "String Scanner result of c.search_full() form : #{c.pos()}\n\n"

 search_full() method
c.search_full(/\s+/, 4, 8)

puts "String Scanner result of c.search_full() form : #{c.pos()}\n\n"

Output :

String Scanner result of c.search_full() form : 1

String Scanner result of c.search_full() form : 2