The Case Against Autodecode

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/2/16 5:43 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
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> .̂ ̪.̂
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> (Copy-paste it somewhere else, I think it might not be rendered
> correctly on the forum.)
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> The point is that if I do:
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> ".̂ ̪.̂".normalize!NFC.byGrapheme.findAmong([Grapheme("."),Grapheme(",")])
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> no match is returned.
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> If I use your method with dchars, I will get spurious matches. I.e. the
> suggested method to look for punctuation symbols is incorrect:
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> writeln(".̂ ̪.̂".findAmong(",.")); // ".̂ ̪.̂"

Nice example.

> (Also, do you have an use case for this?)

Count delimited words. Did you also look at balancedParens?


Andrei