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
etc.
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