source: trunk/essentials/sys-apps/gawk/test/match1.awk

BEGIN {
        data = "foooobazbarrrrr"
        match(data, /(fo+).+(bar*)/, arr)
        for (i = 0; i in arr; i++) {
                printf("arr[%d] = \"%s\"\n", i, arr[i])
                printf("arr[%d, \"start\"] = %s, arr[%d, \"length\"] = %s\n",
                        i, arr[i, "start"], i, arr[i, "length"])
        }
}