Hi, The regex named capturing group support was added into jdk7 [1]. Matcher.group(gname) is the only direct access method we added back then to access the matched result. The proposed change here is to add a pair of accessing/convenient method Matcher.start/end(gname) to access the start/end offset info of the matched result, to match the corresponding start/end/group (int index) access methods.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8013252/webrev Thanks! -Sherman [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/6350801/webrev.02/
