You don't need to use re-matcher in that example - the output of re-find with the regex and the string is identical. If you are using the matcher to collect a series of matches in one string, you can also uses re-seq which returns a lazy-seq of the matches of your regex in the string.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:37 PM Randy J. Ray <rj...@blackperl.com> wrote: > Oh, that might be it. The newline at the end of the string might be what > is throwing a wrench into things. Though, to be fair, when I used > re-matches yesterday the newline wasn't an issue. > > Nonetheless, I can work with re-find/re-matcher for now. > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:28 AM Andy Fingerhut <andy.finger...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The doc string for re-matches says that it >> uses java.util.regex.Matcher.matches(). The Java doc page for the class >> java.util.regex.Matcher [1] says "The matches >> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Matcher.html#matches--> >> method >> attempts to match the entire input sequence against the pattern." >> >> The doc string for re-find says that it >> uses java.util.regex.Matcher.find(). On [1] you can find the statement " >> The find >> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Matcher.html#find--> >> method >> scans the input sequence looking for the next subsequence that matches the >> pattern." >> >> I haven't dug into your regex and string in detail, but most likely what >> is happening is that the regex matches part of the string, but it doesn't >> match the _entire_ string. >> >> Andy >> >> [1] >> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Matcher.html >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:16 AM Randy J. Ray <rj...@blackperl.com> wrote: >> >>> I must be doing something wrong here, but I cannot figure this out. >>> >>> The following results in "nil" from re-matches: >>> >>> (re-matches #"\[((\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+) (\d\d):(\d\d))\] (.*)" "[1518-05-27 >>> 00:42] falls asleep\n") >>> >>> This, however, properly matches the line and produces the backreferences: >>> >>> (re-find (re-matcher #"\[((\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+) (\d\d):(\d\d))\] (.*)" >>> "[1518-05-27 00:42] falls asleep\n")) >>> >>> I've used re-matches many times, but this has me stumped. This is >>> behaving this way on both 1.8.0 and 1.9.0. >>> >>> Randy >>> -- >>> Randy J. 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