I have a data structure consisting of multiple lines, each of multiple items.
I want to find the line number which contains a particular item; the item can be at any item position within the line.
I do want to match only whole items, so as to avoid false positives (i.e. item "alex1" should not match "alex123")
lineOffset will give me the line number - but there's no way to say "match whole items only"
itemOffset will find the right instance (given wholeMatches set to true), but it gives me item number, not line number
matchChunk will find it for me - but gives character positions, not line number
I'm hoping there's some way to inveigle one of the 'offset' functions to do this.
Alternatively is there some way to convert chunk expressions between types, e.g.
given myVar containing
abc,def,ghi 12, 34, 56 a1,b2,c3,d4
convert an expression such as item 3 to 5 of myVar to the corresponding char/word/line expression (i.e. char 9 to 17 or word 1 to 3 or line 1 to 2).
Any suggestions on how to do it ?
If I submit an enhancement suggestion - do you think it should be for the wholeItemMatch approach or the convert-chunk approach ?
-- Alex.
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