[erlang-questions] String pattern matching

Robert Virding rvirding@REDACTED
Wed Apr 29 01:18:02 CEST 2009


A string is just a list and unfortunately you can only match against the
front of the list so there is no pattern with which you can test for/remove
\r\n from the end of a string. This also means that the results of using the
patterns you gave is perfectly logical:

- "a"++B is a list/string where the beginning is "a" and the rest of the
list is B. It is really syntactic sugar for [$a|B].

- A++"b" tries to match "b" against the end of a string which is impossible.

Robert

2009/4/29 Kevin <q2h46uw02@REDACTED>

>
> Does this behavior make sense to somebody or is this sugar tasting sour?
>
>
> 25> "a"++B = "ab".
> "ab"
> 26> A++"b" = "ab".
> * 1: illegal pattern
>
>
> I was just looking for an erlangy way to chomp the end of strings, like
>
> NewLine ++ "\r\n" = Line
>
>
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