Re: Converting byte position to character position

Chris Angelico <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) importmöte
för mailinglistan <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is the fastest one I have tested yet, but please avoid looking
> for byte 10000394 in a 2Mchar long unicode string... :)

Fortunately that's unlikely to happen, as the strings it's working on
are individual lines of text, meaning they won't usually exceed 80
characters. (They might go to a hundred or so, but not 2MB.)

I've made the small optimization you suggest (slicing the text) - thanks!

ChrisA
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