[erlang-questions] regexp sux!

[Michael McDaniel]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:10:09PM +0100, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> On 2007-03-09 16:54, Michael McDaniel wrote:
> 
> >   here is one way to get encoding ver w/regexp, though not
> >   fully reliable due to depending on fixed version length
> >   and depending on no whitespace between endcoding= and the
> >   version.
> >   
> > 
> >  1>  X="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?>".
> >  "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?>"
> > 
> >  2> {match, Start, Length} = regexp:match(X, "encoding=").
> >  {match,21,9}
> 
> perhas you could use
> Start = string:str(X, "encoding=")
> instead?
> that would make no use of regexp at all.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  ooohhh, I like that - thanks!  may be time to refactor some
  of my code ...

~M

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