hi netters,
I'm curious if there's any smart code to calculate the "distance" between
the matches in a text.
Suppose I have a text like this:
syhk...yes...uhg;ka=...yes...yiealg.....yes.......ghe;a...yes...
Apparently it has multiple words of "yes".
I'd like to know how many characters there are between the first and the
last "yes". The way I now come up with to do this is to use substitution to
"mark" the first and the last match, then use a counting loop to calculate
the characters......rather straightforward and stupid method.
Anyone has a better idea about that?
Thanks a lot!
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