Re: [FWP] Finding duplicated code

[sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)]

In article <4.2.2.20000106164001.00a344f0@mail.psdt.com>,
Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> wrote:
>One minuscule problem: the matches printed are on the normalized string, 
>which is not as useful as the input string.  So I would like to map 
>backwards from a match in the normalized string to the input string.  None 
>of the ways I can think of doing this make it nearly worth the effort, 
>though :-)

Seems like if you can see your way to leaving in the newlines, they
can act as checkpoints to align the two.  After matching, you would
count newlines before the point matched and in the match (with tr///),
then split and splice to get the corresponding lines in the original.

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