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@robinst robinst commented Oct 16, 2024

The existing line/column indexes in SourceSpan are useful for some cases, e.g. editors that are line based. But for other cases, it's useful to be able to get the index within the original input string.

An example: If the input string is "foo\n\nbar", the "bar" paragraph has the following SourceSpan:

  • line 2 (third line), column 0, length 3.

With this change, now it also includes the input index: 5 ("b" is the character at index 5 in the string).
That means it's possible to use e.g. substring instead of having to split the input text into lines first.

The existing line/column indexes in `SourceSpan` are useful for some cases,
e.g. editors that are line based. But for other cases, it's useful to be able
to get the index within the original input string.

An example: If the input string is "foo\n\nbar", the "bar" paragraph has
the following `SourceSpan`: line 2 (third line), column 0, length 3.
With this change, now it also includes the input index: 5 ("b" is the character
at index 5 in the string). That means it's possible to use e.g. `substring`
instead of having to split the input text into lines first.
@robinst robinst merged commit 159249c into main Oct 21, 2024
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@robinst robinst deleted the source-position-input-index branch October 21, 2024 11:00
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