2008/9/10 David F. Place
Hi, All.
I needed to make a batch of edits to some input files after a big change in my program. Normally, one would choose some scripting language, but I can't bear to program in them. The nasty thing about using Haskell is that giving regexes as string constants sometime requires two levels of quoting. For instance. (mkRegex "\\\\\\\\") matches \\.
Since some times in the HEAD and in the future 6.10 release, you can use quasiquoting to get nice regex syntax as in Perl or Ruby. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/regexqq (quasiquoting basically allows you to embed a DSL with significantly different syntax in your Haskell and still get typechecking and other advantages at compile-time (though I imagine the errors won't be very nice). -- Jedaï