[erlang-questions] How best to resolve apparent inconsistency between re:run and string:slice

[Scott Finnie]

Thanks for the response Dan,

>> What I'm trying to achieve is consistent behaviour that (a) recognises  > any newline (CR, LF, CRLF, ...) at the start of the string and removes  > it.  I also need a count of the contiguous newlines found.

>Regular expressions seem needlessly complicated for this task.

In the example I gave, I'd agree.  In reality there are quite a few lexemes that constitute a newline.  The full regex is "^(?>\r\n|\n|\x0b|\f|\r|\x85)".  Adding a function clause for each of those would mean quite a lot of code duplication.  There is perhaps a halfway house though, where it matches on a regex but doesn't rely on the {From, To} match result in taking the new string slice.

It still leaves unresolved the seeming inconsistency between re:run and string:slice - though I appreciate you focused on suggesting an approach to my 1st order problem, not the 2nd order symptom.

Thanks again for your suggestion.

-S.

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