I've needed this recently, too.

End result: I wrote an "Attoparsec.Parser Text", and ran the text through that.

A regex would have been much nicer...

  - Clark


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> wrote:
People have put a lot of work into regular expression libraries on
haskell. Yet it seems very few of them provide a replace/substitute
function - just regex-compat and regepr as far as I know. Why is that ?
#haskell says:

<sclv> iirc its because that's a really mutatey operation in the
underlying c libs
<sclv> should be simple enough to write a general purpose wrapper layer
that uses captures to create the effect

Secondly, as of today what do y'all do when you need that functionality
?

-Simon

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