How to find out the starting point for each match in ruby

Friday, 14 April 2017

Say, i have a following string

string = "#Sachin is Indian cricketer. #Tendulkar is right hand batsman. #Sachin has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan award "

I want o/p as

"#Sachin|0|7;#Tendulkar|29|10;#Sachinn|63|7;"

I tried following

 new_string = ""
 string.scan(/#\S+/).each{|match| new_string+="#{match}|#{string.index(match)}|#{match.length};"  }

which gives me

 "#Sachin|0|7;#Tendulkar|29|10;#Sachin|0|7;"

So how i will get the starting index of each sub-string?

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