n ocurrance in a string

[Heinz]

== Quote from BCS (nothing at pathlink.com)'s article
> Heinz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm doing a bit of work with strings. There's a function called find in
> > std.string. This function returns the first ocurrance of a substring in a
> > string, but how can i get the second, thrith, fifth...Nth ocurrance?
> > Thanks a lot.
> slice off the front:
> char[] string = ...
> int i = FindInString(string, "whatever");
> i++;
> i += FindInString(string[i..$], "whatever");
> You may want to change this a bit for checking the return value (test of
> no matche) and starting then next search more than one part the last (to
> avoid overlapping matches.

Man, i found a bug in the method you suggest while trying to code it:

The returned int is no longer relative to beginning of the original string because
every time you call this find function it takes a diferent string as parameter.
Any other ideas?

Thx