exist?(p1) public

Looks ahead to see if the pattern exists anywhere in the string, without advancing the scan pointer. This predicates whether a #scan_until will return a value.

s = StringScanner.new('test string')
s.exist? /s/            # -> 3
s.scan /test/           # -> "test"
s.exist? /s/            # -> 2
s.exist? /e/            # -> nil
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