Re: Quick question: how to do .index in groff?

[Denis M. Wilson]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:11:15 +0200
Tadziu Hoffmann <hoffmann@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

> > If it DOES get implemented in Groff, please name it `.indexof`.
> > The name `.index` is so horribly misleading I'm almost tempted
> > to submit a PR just to rename it.  
> 
> Why not ".strpos"?
> 

or ".strstr" as in the C library?

My own view is not to make it a command, as I'm against code bloat, but
to write it as a macro. There are lots of useful string manipulation
functions that could be part of a strings package.


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