A Pythonista's Impressions of Erlang

[Raimo Niskanen]

I think either string:stubstr/2,3 (that can operate on
any-element-lists as well), or lists:split/2 can do 
what you want.

By the way, the 'string' module has got a lot of
C-style string handling functions. Many of them do 
not bother about the list elements being characters.

When doing a quick readthrough of 'string' it seems as
words/1,2, sub_word/2,3, left/2,3, and right/2,3
require that the elements are integers. I do not 
see why this requirement could not be relaxed.



csanto@REDACTED (Corrado Santoro) writes:

> Dominic Williams wrote:
> > Given what is already in the lists module,
> >>
> >> a="Hello, World"
> >> a[5:-3] --> ", Wo"
> > slice("Hello, World", 5, -3) -> ...
> > must be a one- or two-liner.
> why not including such a function in "lists"?
> 
> > Why bother with the syntactic sugar?
> I agree :-))
> 
> Cheers,
> --Corrado
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