According to Dan Sugalski:At 2:44 PM +0000 9/3/04, Chip Salzenberg wrote: >According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski): >>*) extract substring > >Rather than that, wouldn't you prefer to make "substring of target >string" the actual target of all these?
Only if the resulting substring'd be used in the match. Otherwise you're better off with just offset or offset/length, and defer substring extraction until the very end [...]
That's what I meant, e.g.:
* find {first|last} instance of string in [offset/length of] string * find {first|last} character of class X in [offset/length of] string
D'oh! Okay, I completely misunderstood. Yep, you're right and what I was thinking of wasn't sufficient to be actually useful.
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