I have been thinking of writing a native integration of regex which can be integrated in GNU APL.
I haven't needed to yet though.
On 21 Jun 2016 22:24, "Louis Chretien" <
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Looks like a job for regexp…
Too bad APL doesn’t have one.
> On Jun 20, 2016, at 23:12, Christian Robert <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi, it's not a bug but a request for help,
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> suppose s="^^^This^is^a^^^^test^^with^^^^^lot^of^blanks^^^^at^beginning^and^^^end^^^^^^"
> suppose from="^^^"
> suppose to="^"
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> I need a function who can replace ("^^^" to "^"), or ("^" to "^^^^^^^^") or ("" to "blabla" with limits of source size) ie: without being lost in infinite loop.
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> "s" is a character vector, "from" is a character vector, and "to" is a character vector,
> both "s", "from" and "to" can be "".
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> I'm pretty sure this idiom already exist.
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> if you can help me, please do.
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> Xtian.
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Louis Chrétien
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