Limitation with current regex API

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/17/2012 04:03 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Vladimir Panteleev"<vladimir at thecybershadow.net>  wrote in message
> news:klzeekkilpzwmjmkudhh at dfeed.kimsufi.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)
>
> That wouldn't work in @safe mode, would it?
>
>

There is nothing unsafe about the operation, so I'd actually expect it 
to work.