# Call for Users (and Authors): Offset indexing pitch

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/call-for-users-and-authors-offset-indexing-pitch/21444>\
**Category:** Pitches\
**Created:** [March 10, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/call-for-users-and-authors-offset-indexing-pitch/21444 "2019-03-10T21:46:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ilseman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/michael_ilseman/32/44640_2.png) [@Michael\_Ilseman](https://forums.swift.org/u/Michael_Ilseman)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/call-for-users-and-authors-offset-indexing-pitch/21444/61 "2019-03-13T17:34:41Z")

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> [@TellowKrinkle](#):
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> I do think Swift should get better ways to parse ASCII-ish things, either through an `ASCIIString` struct or maybe just through `String.utf8` .

This is a huge part of the motivation behind [Contiguous Strings](https://forums.swift.org/t/se-0247-contiguous-strings/21483), which is now in review.

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