Hi Romildo. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:18 AM, José Romildo Malaquias <j.romi...@gmail.com> wrote: (...) > I am looking for a substring replacement based on Perl like regular > expressions that would let me use part of the original string in the > replacement string. Something like: > > reReplace "name is (.*)\\." "hi \1!" "my name is john." > > which would result in > > "hy john!"
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but I'd simply do something like this, using Text.Regex.TDFA or any other: let [[_, name]] = "my name is john." =~ "name is (.*)\\." in "hi " ++ name ++ "!" Greetings. (...) -- marcot http://marcot.eti.br/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
