How can I get the matched range?

[singno]

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[sharplet]

Hi @singno!

This is something I've considered, however I'd like to talk about concrete use cases before adding it. Would you mind elaborating on your use case?

[sharplet]

Just FYI, I ended up adding a range property to MatchResult as part of #31. If you think there's a compelling use case for it beyond find and replace, I'll definitely consider going ahead and making it public!

[singno]

It sounds great! And sometimes I want to replace part of NSAttributedString, would you also support this use cases?

[sharplet]

@singno I've just released version 0.3.1 which includes range replacement methods.

At this stage I think NSAttributedString integration is out of scope for this library. Because NSRegularExpression itself doesn't have direct integration with NSAttributedString.

However, it may be worth exposing a utf16range property on MatchResult, which you could then pass to NSMutableAttributedString.replaceCharactersInRange(_:withString:) et al. Would that work for your use case?

[sharplet]

NSAttributedString support has come up in another issue as well, so I've opened #38 to track that into the future. I'm going to close this for now.