[racket] Question about string conversion

I recently came across a site that made coming up with regular expressions
much, much easier for me: http://www.debuggex.com/

Hopefully that will help with your "regex hell" problem.

On Thursday, July 18, 2013, Greg Hendershott wrote:

> To add to what Carl and Robby said:
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:29 AM,  <m0nastic at tengulabs.com <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > (although truth be told, mail headers are surprisingly nonstandard even
> > within a single message)
>
> That's where net/head could definitely help. (Especially for SMTP
> headers, which tend to be more "interesting" than typical HTTP
> headers.)
>
> > I eventually discovered that I could sort of cheat, by just wrapping the
> > regexp-match function with a car (which worked, because this particular
> > list only had one element), and then it was usable from then on (and
> > validated true from "string?").
>
> It's worth walking through what Carl described. Actually you're lucky,
> you have a specific example of something you want to do, which touches
> on a few basic aspects of Racket.
>
> Having said that, one pattern I've settled into using with regexps is
> to use `match`, which makes it convenient to "de-structure" the list.
> For example:
>
> (match "From: Me"
>   [(pregexp "^(.+):\\s*(.+)$" (list all key val))
>    (displayln all)   ; From: Me
>    (displayln key)   ; From
>    (displayln val)]) ; Me
>
> If you don't need the "all" part, you can supply _ like so:
>
> (match "From: Me"
>   [(pregexp "^(.+):\\s*(.+)$" (list _ key val))
>    (displayln key)
>    (displayln val)])
>
> Which is the pattern I use a lot.
>
> Again, you probably want to use net/head to deal with the gory details
> of SMTP headers as Robby suggested, and it would definitely be good to
> walk through the explorations Carl described.
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