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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replacing substrings in strings
Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 01:29:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87presgxdm.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <skkae6tk.fsf@vps203.linuxvps.org> (Sebastian Tennant's message of "Wed\, 15 Apr 2009 07\:04\:23 +0000")

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:

> Quoth Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>:
>> 2009/4/14 Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>:
>>> I needed to replace two consecutive spaces in strings with ' &nbsp;' so
>>
>> Most programming languages use regex, and so does guile:
>
> Of course it can be done using regexps, I'm just a little surprised
> there isn't already a replace-substring function knocking around.

There is, and I guess it's what Linas had in mind:
regexp-substitute/global (from (ice-9 regex)).

For example:

  ;; Replace forward slashes by backward ones.
  (set! path (regexp-substitute/global #f "/" path 'pre "\\" 'post))

Regards,
        Neil




  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-02  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 17:18 Replacing substrings in strings Sebastian Tennant
2009-04-14 17:35 ` Linas Vepstas
2009-04-15  7:04   ` Sebastian Tennant
2009-05-02  0:29     ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-04-15  8:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-04-15  9:09   ` Sebastian Tennant
2009-04-15 14:32     ` Ludovic Courtès

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