[erlang-questions] split

[Joe Armstrong]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Jesper Louis Andersen <
jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> I hereby accuse you of abusing regular expressions where less will do:
>
> 3> [P || P <- binary:split(<<"123abcabc456">>, <<"abc">>, [global]), P /=
> <<>>].
> [<<"123">>,<<"456">>]
>
> In Standard ML, there are two token-split operations,
>
> http://www.standardml.org/Basis/string.html#SIG:STRING.tokens:VAL
>
> the important notion being that the 'tokens' variant omits redundant
> whitespace (what you want) and 'fields' keeps the whitespace (what you want
> when parsing e.g., CSV files). The code in e(3) probably doesn't generate a
> lot of garbage.
>


Actually I wanted to do something a tad more complicated -

Thanks anyway to everybody who replied.

/Joe


>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> I'm sitting here feeling very stupid, can anybody explain to me in terms
>> that
>> a child of five could understand what's going on here:
>>
>> Problem: I want to split a string on repeated  occurrences of the string
>> "abc"
>>
>>   so split("123abcabc456") should return [<<"123">>,<<"456">>]
>>
>> So I thought I could use re for this:
>>
>> > re:split("123abcabc456", "(abc)+").
>> [<<"123">>,<<"abc">>,<<"456">>]
>>
>>
>> The manual page says the matching split string is not included in the
>> output - at least that what it appear to me to say.
>>
>> How in the name of the great blue-eyed slimy thing that hides under stones
>> can I get rid of the additional <<"abc">> - this is totally not obvious
>> to me.
>>
>> try again:
>>
>> > re:split("123abcabcabc456", "abc",[notempty]).
>> [<<"123">>,<<>>,<<>>,<<"456">>]
>>
>>
>> I was under the vague impression that <<>> *was* and empty string
>>
>> I knew I hated regular expressions, can't they be outlawed?
>>
>>
>>
>> /Joe
>>
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>
>
> --
> J.
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