From: "naruse (Yui NARUSE)" Date: 2012-10-27T05:23:16+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:48333] [ruby-trunk - Feature #2645][Rejected] Have a method in StringScanner which returns the position in characters rather than in bytes Issue #2645 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE). Status changed from Feedback to Rejected ---------------------------------------- Feature #2645: Have a method in StringScanner which returns the position in characters rather than in bytes https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/2645#change-31641 Author: stefanocr (Stefano Crocco) Status: Rejected Priority: Low Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE) Category: ext Target version: 2.0.0 =begin In ruby 1.9, StringScanner#pos returns the position in number of bytes. I read on the ruby mailing list (http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/352809) this happens because working with character-based indexes would be too slow. However, I think it would be nice if StringScanner also provided a method which returned the position in terms of characters (even if it would be slow). As I see it, the situation is the same as with StringScanner#get_byte and StringScanner#getch. I think this would be useful because, when using StringScanner, you're usually interested in the character rather than in bytes. =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/