Capture offset of matches in std.regex.matchAll?

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On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 15:58:47 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
>
> What do you mean by offset?  If you simply mean the index of 
> the match,
> as your example seems to indicate, you can zip the matches with 
> iota or
> sequence!"n".
>
> If you want the offset in the string where each match begins I 
> think
> you're out of luck.  I needed something similar a while ago and 
> the best
> I could find was using the cumulative length of the pre 
> property.


Sorry for my confusing example!

Yes, I was looking for the offset in the string where the matches 
begin.
I did some programming in PHP in the past. Their preg_match_all 
function has an optional offset_capture flag. I was hoping for 
something similar in std.regex...

Good tip, I'll use the cumulative length of pre.

Thanks you both for your replies!