Limitation with current regex API

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2012/1/17 Vladimir Panteleev <vladimir at thecybershadow.net>:
> On Tuesday, 17 January 2012 at 01:44:37 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, 16 January 2012 at 19:28:42 UTC, Jerry wrote:
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell, the only way to do this would be to capture every
>>> chunk of text, then iterate to determine the offsets.
>>
>>
>> Not sure if this is what you were referring to, but you can do...
>
>
> Even simpler: m.captures[1].ptr - s.ptr
>
> (s is the string being matched)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this be better:
(m_captures[1].ptr - s.ptr) / s[0].sizeof;