[racket-dev] Fwd: [racket] Are There More String Functions?

(sorry, I couldn't figure out how to reply properly from the list archive,
as I don't receive the dev-list emails.)

One string function that I often find useful in various scripting languages
is a `string-split' (explode in php).
It can be done with `regexp-split', but having something more along the
lines of a `string-split' should belong to a racket/string lib I think.
Plus it would be symmetric with `string-join', which already is in
racket/string (or at least a doc line pointing to regexp-split should be
added there).

Maybe also a `string-replace' could be useful, especially when one does not
want regexps and has special characters that need to be quoted.

Regexps are very powerful, but they are complicated for beginners.

Laurent



> I think `racket/string' should provide the useful string functions,
> rather than refer users to srfis. The only srfi/13 function I ever
> use is `string-trim-both' -- any objection to adding that to
> `racket/string'?
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matth... at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I saw no response to this question and no commit that includes the
> > cross-link. Anything?
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >> From: Asumu Takikawa <as... at ccs.neu.edu>
> >> Subject: Re: [racket] Are There More String Functions?
> >> Date: April 12, 2012 5:47:26 PM EDT
> >> To: Cristian Esquivias <cristian.esquiv... at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: us... at racket-lang.org
> >>
> >> On 2012-04-12 10:43:15 -0700, Cristian Esquivias wrote:
> >>> As a slight aside, is this module mentioned anywhere in the Racket
> >>> Guide or Racket Reference? I tried to RTFM as much as possible but
> >>> didn't see this module mentioned anywhere in the string pages. Should
> >>> this module be mentioned for others like me?
> >>
> >> I think that's an interesting point and has been brought up before on
> >> this list: what's the official stance on SRFIs? On the documentation
> >> page they are near the bottom in "Miscellaneous libraries".
> >>
> >> If their use is encouraged, maybe doc pages should have a pointer in the
> >> margin similar to how reference entries point to guide entries. For
> >> example, the string section in the reference could point to SRFI-13.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Asumu
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