[Haskell-cafe] Split and substitution using regex-pcre

[Brent Yorgey]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:30:20AM +1300, Alistair Bayley wrote:
> You cannot bend the split package to your needs?
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/split/0.2.1.2/doc/html/Data-List-Split.html
> 
> Some combination of splitWhen and a pcre-based predicate?

This won't work; splitWhen operates only on single list elements, not
on substrings.

-Brent

> On 24 February 2013 22:44, Simon Marechal <simon at banquise.net> wrote:
> 
> > I could not find the perl-equivalents of these functions on Hackage, so
> > I quickly wrote mine. Code is there:
> >
> > https://github.com/bartavelle/pcre-utils
> >
> > It should behave like perl (not really tested actually), and do strange
> > things like :
> >
> > > splitCompile "a" "aaaab"
> > Right ["","","","","b"]
> > > splitCompile "a" "aaaabaaa"
> > Right ["","","","","b"]
> >
> > This will go on Hackage as I need it for the language-puppet package,
> > but I am interested in comments, especially concerning the namespaces:
> > * is the name of this package OK ?
> > * is the name of the package OK ?
> > * should I work with the regex-pcre maintainer to try to merge it ?
> >
> >
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