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Bug #3482

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StringScanner#pos returns wrong character position if used with multibyte chars

Added by Quintus (Marvin Gülker) almost 14 years ago. Updated almost 13 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
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Target version:
ruby -v:
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-05-31 revision 28117) [x86_64-linux]
Backport:

Description

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The StringScanner class from 1.9's stdlib works on bytes rather than on characters. That means, if you want to extract substrings from the original string by use of the return value of StringScanner#pos you get incorrect results:

irb(main):001:0> require "strscan"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> str = "abcädeföghi"
=> "abcädeföghi"
irb(main):003:0> ss = StringScanner.new(str)
=> #<StringScanner 0/13 @ "abc\xC3\xA4...">
irb(main):004:0> ss.scan_until(/ä/)
=> "abcä"
irb(main):005:0> ss.pos
=> 5
irb(main):006:0> ss.scan_until(/ö/)
=> "defö"
irb(main):007:0> ss.pos
=> 10
irb(main):008:0>

After the first scan_until I expected the position to be 4, after the second to be 8, which means we finally have an offset of 2 here.

My Ruby version is ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [x86_64-linux], but I also get the same beaviour with the 1.9.2-preview3 (ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-05-31 revision 28117) [x86_64-linux]).
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Related to Ruby master - Feature #1159: StringScanner に文字ベースでのインデックスを返すメソッドがほしいRejectedaamine (Minero Aoki)02/14/2009Actions
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Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) almost 14 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

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Hi,

It is a spec. See rdoc of StringScanner#pos.

FYI, IO#pos is also byte-oriented.
I guess this is because #pos is supposed to be byte-oriented.

--
Yusuke Endoh
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