Thomas Hartman wrote:
Is there something like subRegex... something like =~ s/.../.../ in perl... for haskell pcre Regexen?
I mean, subRegex from Text.Regex of course: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/regex-compat
Thanks for any advice,
thomas.
Short answer: No. This is a FAQ. The usual answer to your follow up "Why not?" is that the design space is rather huge. Rather than justify this statement, I will point at the complicated module: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/split/0.1.1/doc/html/Data-List-S... The above module is "a wide range of strategies for splitting lists", which is a much simpler problem than your subRegex request, and only works on lists. A subRegex library should also work on bytestrings (and Seq). At the cost of writing your own routine you get exactly what you want in a screen or less of code, see http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/regex-compat/0.92/doc/html/src/T... for "subRegex" which is 30 lines of code. Cheers, Chris