First Impressions

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Thomas Kuehne schrieb am 2006-09-30:
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> Derek Parnell schrieb am 2006-09-30:
>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:04:57 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>> And is it there yet? I mean, given that a string is just a lump of text, is
>>>> there any text processing operation that cannot be simply done to a char[]
>>>> item? I can't think of any but maybe somebody else can.
>>> 
>>> I believe it's there. I don't think std::string or java.lang.String have 
>>> anything over it.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that the phobos routines for search and replace only work
>> for ASCII text. For example, std.string.find(japanesetext, "a") will nearly
>> always fail to deliver the correct result. It finds the first occurance of
>> the byte value for the letter 'a' which may well be inside a Japanese
>> character. It looks for byte-subsets rather than character sub-sets.
>
>
> ~wow~
>
> Have a look at std.string.find's source and try to stop giggling *g*
>
> The correct implementation would be:

As it seems, the original code depends on the undocumented index behavior
with regards to silent transcoding in foreach.

Thomas


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