Monday, April 25, 2016

Re: Capture columns nummers of matches ending with double byte chars

Op maandag 25 april 2016 22:26:27 UTC+2 schreef Ken Takata:
> Hi rameo,
>
> 2016/4/23 Sat 21:37:15 UTC+9 rameo wrote:
> > Searchpos() doesn't return the right end value of a match if the match end with a double byte character (èéòìùá...). (encoding utf-8)
> > Isn't this a bug????
>
> You might misunderstand the spec of searchpos().
> When the 'e' flag is specified, the cursor moves to the last character of
> the match and searchpos() returns the position of the cursor. It means
> that the returned value is a byte index of start of the last character,
> not the end of the character.
>

Hello Ken,

thank you for your reply :)

Just a question, why does someone need the byte index of the start of the last character and not simply the end of the last character?

>
> > The last few years I used match/matchend then I noted that it did not capture correctly double byte characters within the string.
>
> Can you show an example?
> match()/matchend() return a byte offset, not a character count.
>
> FYI, matchstrpos() can be used to get both start and end position
> after 7.4.1685.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ken Takata

That's great news.
I waited long for such a feature.

Can you please send me the url of the site where the patches can be downloaded?
I can't find it anymore.

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