Some progress:
The behaviour I described earlier still works, but now has the ability to
work N-dimensional arrays of strings, compiling the regex only once and
then applying it on all the cells.
In addition to this, I have now also added a flag "B" (meaning "bitmap")
that creates a bitmap of all
In playing around with this, I realise that the "B" mode is quite useful.
So much so, in fact, that I'm wondering if it's warranted to have a
dedicated quad-function for this specific behaviour.
Here's an example of extracting sequences of 4 characters:
* {⍵ ⊂⍨ "[a-z]{4}" ⎕RE['B'] ⍵} 'abcdef
Hi Elias,
I believe it is better to keep things together, i.e. in a single ⎕
function than in several.
It may be intuitive to use the character ⊂ instead of B in
the axis argument to indicate
that the result is meant
In the default mode, as I have demonstrated earlier, when the regexp has
parenthesised subexpressions, the strings matching those expressions will
be returned as separate strings. This is logical and in my opinion makes
perfect sense.
When using ⊂-mode, parenthesised expressions doesn't change the
