Re: Tools for those working heavily with strings

[carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Jul 24, 2022, 05:11 by bugs@gnu.support:

> * carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2022-07-24 08:06]:
>
>> If one works heavily with strings, it is often strongly recommend to use Magnar Sveen `s.el' string manipulation library.
>>
>> Can emacs have its own string manipulation tools.  It would be much
>> appreciated.
>>
>
> 74 possible completions for functions with prefix `string-':
>
Why the popular recommendation for `s.el` then?


> string-add string-add-space string-as-multibyte string-as-unibyte
> string-blank-if-nil string-blank-p string-bytes string-chop-newline
> string-clean-whitespace string-collate-equalp string-collate-lessp
> string-comma-space string-comma-space-cast-text
> string-comma-space-list string-comma-space-quoted
> string-comma-space-quoted-list string-cut-id string-cut-id-with-part
> string-cut-right-square-bracket-reference string-distance string-edit
> string-empty-p string-equal string-fill string-glyph-compose
> string-glyph-decompose string-glyph-split string-greaterp
> string-insert-rectangle string-is-number-p
> string-is-positive-integer-p string-join string-last-part-after-space
> string-lessp string-limit string-lines string-make-multibyte
> string-make-unibyte string-match string-match-p
> string-number-smaller-p string-or-empty-string string-or-null-p
> string-pad string-pixel-width string-prefix-p string-rectangle
> string-remove-prefix string-remove-suffix string-replace
> string-replace-non-digits-for-spaces string-replace-shorten-spaces
> string-reverse string-search string-slug string-slug-region
> string-suffix-p string-to-char string-to-double-quotes
> string-to-file-force string-to-list string-to-multibyte
> string-to-number string-to-single-quotes string-to-syntax
> string-to-unibyte string-to-vector string-trim string-trim-left
> string-trim-right string-truncate-left string-version-lessp
> string-width string-words-to-double-quotes
>
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