To find the position of a single non-matching character between two strings: s1 = "part1_Z_part2.txt" s2 = "part1_Y_part2.txt" ix = findfirst([!=(c[1],c[2]) for c in zip(s1,s2)]) Is there a simpler way to write findfirst without creating the temporary vector? Is there a better way?

[image] digital_carver: By string indices you mean byte indices I presume? I mean indices that you can actually use to index into the string, i.e. an index i where s1[i] != s2[i] is valid, so you can use it for subsequent processing. Yes, technically this is a codeunit index (a byte index fo…

Find the position of a single non-matching character between two strings

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DNF August 30, 2022, 6:09pm 5

No access to computer here, but does it work with a generator instead of an array comprehension? I suspect it requires indexing, though.

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Find the position of a single non-matching character between two strings

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