getGroupStart

getGroupStart() Function

• Introduced in version 1.3b48

Returns the start index of the specified capture group for the specified match that was found using strfind()

Usage

<source lang="mtmacro" line> getGroupStart(id, match, group) </syntaxhighlight> Where

• id is the id returned by strfind()
• match is the number of the match found by strfind()
• group is the number of the capture group found by strfind()

Example

<source lang="mtmacro" line>

[h: id = strfind("this is a test", "(\\S+)\\s(\\S+)\\s*")] match 1, group 1 start = [getGroupStart(id, 1, 1)]
match 1, group 2 start = [getGroupStart(id, 1, 2)]
match 2, group 1 start = [getGroupStart(id, 2, 1)]
match 2, group 2 start = [getGroupStart(id, 2, 2)]
</syntaxhighlight> Returns

match 1, group 1 start = 0 
match 1, group 2 start = 5 
match 2, group 1 start = 8 
match 2, group 2 start = 10