On Jun 25, 6:13 am, CuppoJava <patrickli_2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to dynamically create a regex, and would really like to be able
> to use Clojure's built-in regex syntax. But I don't know how to go
> about it.
>
> My regex is: #"(.*?)(\(image .*)"
>
> except instead of "image", I need to dynamically insert an array of
> possible strings to match.
>
> ie. given ["image" "buffer" "spacer"]
>
> I need to produce #"(.*?)(\((?:image|buffer|spacer) .*)"
>
> Is there a nice way of doing this without having to go back to using
> Java's string syntax?
Is re-pattern what you want? (After building the string, of course.)
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