Re: [Tutor] Finding line number by offset value.

2016-02-22 Thread Peter Otten
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 01:41:42AM +, Alan Gauld wrote: >> On 21/02/16 19:32, Cody West wrote: > >> > I'm trying to take 48L, which I believe is the character number, and >> > get the line number from that. The documentation isn't explicit, but """ with

Re: [Tutor] Finding line number by offset value.

2016-02-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 01:41:42AM +, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 21/02/16 19:32, Cody West wrote: > > I'm trying to take 48L, which I believe is the character number, and get > > the line number from that. > > I'm not totally clear what you mean but, if it is that 48L > is the character count

Re: [Tutor] Finding line number by offset value.

2016-02-21 Thread Alan Gauld
On 21/02/16 19:32, Cody West wrote: > I'm using yara-python for some file scanning and I'm trying to take the > offset in the 'strings' field and turn it into a line number. I know nothing about yara except that its some kind of pattern matching engine. However... > (48L, '$execution',