Re: a regular expression for matching and for generating?

2009-07-29 Thread Chouser
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Rowdy Rednose wrote: > > Does anybody know an elegant way to have a regex pattern with > capturing groups like in this simple example: > > user=> (def pat #"^foo=([^;]*);bar=([^;]*);$") > #'user/pat > > user=> (re-seq pat "foo=F0o;bar=bAr;") > (["foo=F0o;bar=bAr;"

Re: a regular expression for matching and for generating?

2009-07-29 Thread Stuart Sierra
Look at clojure.contrib.str-utils2/replace. It accepts a function -- the fn will be called on each match, and its return value will be inserted into the result string. But that may not be quite what you want. If you want true string generation, you'd need a template library. -SS On Jul 29, 9:

a regular expression for matching and for generating?

2009-07-29 Thread Rowdy Rednose
Does anybody know an elegant way to have a regex pattern with capturing groups like in this simple example: user=> (def pat #"^foo=([^;]*);bar=([^;]*);$") #'user/pat user=> (re-seq pat "foo=F0o;bar=bAr;") (["foo=F0o;bar=bAr;" "F0o" "bAr"]) And reuse that pattern to generate a text that replaces