RegexMatch - get start and end values of get_strings() missing

[blurymind]

How do we get the start and end positions of matched.get_strings()[1] ...

There seems to be no method to do it :o

As a side node - it would be VERY useful if godot had a proper built in method to do regexreplace. I know it's easy to write my own, but it's so commonly used and saves so much time - I am surprised godot doesnt have it yet.

@leezh ? :)

In any case I was able to create my regexreplace function in gdscript like this:

func regexReplace(expression,inputString,replaceWith):
    var result = inputString
    var ex = RegEx.new()
    ex.compile(expression)
    for matched in ex.search_all(inputString):
        result=result.substr(0,matched.get_start()) + replaceWith + result.substr(matched.get_start()+matched.get_strings()[1].length(),result.length())
    return result

But I will be able to make it better if I could get the start and end of matched.get_strings()[1], which is missing in godot

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