<div dir="ltr">Because re is dog-slow compared to simple string operations. See <a href="https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/1188#issuecomment-18932390">https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/1188#issuecomment-18932390</a><br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Sean Cribbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@basho.com" target="_blank">sean@basho.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr">Why not use re:replace/3,4? <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/re.html#replace-4" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/re.html#replace-4</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">

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On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:52 AM, David Welton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidnwelton@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidnwelton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


It would be convenient to have something like binary:replace, but for strings.<br>
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I'd be happy to try to put together a pull request that does this,<br>
although I'd likely need some help with the finer points of what<br>
options to add.<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Sean Cribbs <<a href="mailto:sean@basho.com" target="_blank">sean@basho.com</a>><div>

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