I should also note that in my first draft of that String Indexing essay, I tried too hard to be efficient and, in the process, introduced an error (at least in terms of my intended result). I've since fixed that error.
Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 5:44 PM Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 2:30 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's what I wanted to know. I find it hard to come up with definitions > > of 'match' and 'position' that justify this result. > > I would use pairs: index (of start) and length. > > Since this topic might eventually be of general interest, I threw > together an essay: > > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/String_Indexing > > Some of the mechanisms I used there could stand to be made more efficient. > > The search and replace mechanism I illustrated there is a relatively > simple model and might or might not be thought of as representing an > adequate replacement for stringreplace. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
