Function offset

  • Returns the position (in bytes) where the encoding of the n-th codepoint of s (counting from byte position i) starts. A negative n gets characters before position i. The default for i is 0 when n is non-negative and #s + 1 otherwise, so that utf8.offset(s, -n) gets the offset of the n-th character from the end of the string. If the specified character is neither in the subject nor right after its end, the function returns nil.

    Parameters

    • s: string
    • n: number
    • Optional i: number

    Returns number | undefined