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Re: find_from and match_from

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 21, 2007
• 676 views

Robert Craig wrote:
nt system.
> 
> However, even today, there are cases where a slice does
> not result in a new sequence being written. e.g.
> 
>    x = x[a..b]
> 
> will usually result in a simple update to the header
> of sequence x, to show that it starts later, or ends
> earlier (or both) in memory.

Ok. So something like this might be a tad faster ...

function find_from_to(integer N, integer L, object a, sequence b)
     b = b[N .. L]
     L=find(a,b)
     if L then
       L += N-1
     end if
     return L
end function

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