[erlang-questions] Any reason not to have a string:replace?

[Alexei Sholik]

Because re is dog-slow compared to simple string operations. See
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/1188#issuecomment-18932390


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Sean Cribbs <sean@REDACTED> wrote:

> Why not use re:replace/3,4?
>
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/re.html#replace-4
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> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:52 AM, David Welton <davidnwelton@REDACTED>wrote:
>
>> It would be convenient to have something like binary:replace, but for
>> strings.
>>
>> I'd be happy to try to put together a pull request that does this,
>> although I'd likely need some help with the finer points of what
>> options to add.
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Alexei Sholik
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