A Pythonista's Impressions of Erlang

[blaguehubert]

Speaking of string operations, I need to add (or remove) the /  at the 
end of an URL if it is absent (or present).

I only ended in writing ugly code like that:

RootUrl=
if
        list:last(SiteRoot) =/= $/ ->
                SiteRoot ++ [$/];
        true ->
                SiteRoot
end

Is there an elegant way to do last character manipulation?

Raimo Niskanen wrote:

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