Peter Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would prefer this to be done via an iterator, as it would also solve
> the skip_backward problems with DBCS encoding. Something like:
There was a discussion, that current string iterators are wrong.
They should take a position argument (and start of string) instead the
pointer...
> typedef struct string_iterator_t {
> String *str;
> UINTVAL bytepos;
> UINTVAL charpos;
> UINTVAL (*decode_and_advance)(struct string_iterator_t *i);
> } string_iterator;
... which is done here.
> Does anybody think this is worth implementing?
Yes. Its a nice speed up and a clean interface.
> Peter Gibbs
leo
