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		richardwhiuk on May 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UTF-8 String Indexing Strategies I think that accessing characters by index is _probably_ a code smell in most places, especially if that string may contain arbitrary UTF-8.

masklinn on May 30, 2019 [–]

Accessing string content by arbitrary indices is probably an error. Accessing string content by indices you got from previous lookups is useful for a number of situations.

scatters on May 30, 2019 | | [–]

If you have an index from a previous lookup, that can be a byte index.

raiph on May 30, 2019 | | [–]

You're right to the degree that people probably aren't using P6. :)

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