How to get indexes of all occurrences of a pattern in a string

Question

string = \"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown. And Jill came tumbling after. \"
d = string.match(/(jack|jill         


        

Answer 1

Here's a modification of Nakilon's answer if you want to put just the locations of "Jack" into an array

location_array = Array.new

string = "Jack and Jack went up the hill to fetch a pail of Jack..."  
string.to_enum(:scan,/(jack)/i).map do |m,|
    location_array.push [$`.size]
end