On Saturday 07 May 2005 12:06, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > I'd like to make a slight change to the is_digit, is_wordchar, > > and other is_* ops. Currently calling these ops at the offset > > following the last codepoint results in a > > "get_byte past the end of the buffer (1 of 1)" error, > > it would be nicer if they simply returned false (0) at > > this one position. (Going any further than that could generate > > the error message.) > > Sounds reasonable. We can change that along with the proposed > C<is_cclass> implementation. Okay, I'll implement it.
> > As it is now, I'm having to put in extra checks to watch for > > the end of the string when I'm just wanting to run along a > > string of digits. Of course, if we had an op to find the > > offset of the first non-digit/non-word/non-whitespace/etc. > > codepoint then I could use that. :-) > > Well, then working on the general find and find_not classifying opcodes > and implementation seems to be more effective, then ... > > > I'll be glad to write the patch for is_digit and friends > > if it's appropriate. > > ... reparing doomed code :-) > > > Pm > > leo jens
