Hi Roman and Bob, thanks a lot for the help. I ended up using getAllTextSubmatches as explained by Bob, since I had that package already installed on my system. Works great! Thanks, nick On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

Note that Haskell doesn't convert "\(" to "\\(" like Python does, so the regex string has been changed. It's not so easy to figure out how to use this library from the documentation because of all the typeclass trickery.

h> import Text.Regexp.Posix (getAllTextSubmatches, (=~)) h> getAllTextSubmatches ("M(1,2) = 0.1e-3;" =~ "M\\(([0-9]+),([0-9]+)\\) *= *([0-9.eE-]+);") :: [String] ["M(1,2) = 0.1e-3;","1","2","0.1e-3"]

If it doesn't match, you'll get an empty list. You can join the tail of the match list together with Data.List.intercalate, and print it out with putStrLn. The if null case would just return ().

To demonstrate some of the typeclass trickery going on here, you could ask for the results as an Array with Int indexes of String.

h> import Text.Regexp.Posix (getAllTextSubmatches, (=~)) h> import Data.Array ((!), Array) h> let matches = getAllTextSubmatches ("M(1,2) = 0.1e-3;" =~ "M\\(([0-9]+),([0-9]+)\\) *= *([0-9.eE-]+);") :: Array Int String h> matches array (0,3) [(0,"M(1,2) = 0.1e-3;"),(1,"1"),(2,"2"),(3,"0.1e-3")] h> map (matches !) [1..3] ["1","2","0.1e-3"]

-bob

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Nicolas Bock wrote:

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Hello list,

I was wondering whether there is a way to do what the following python code does in haskell:

import re

result = re.compile("M\(([0-9]+),([0-9]+)\) *= *([0-9.eE-]+);").search("M(1,2) = 0.1e-3;") if result: print(result.group(1), result.group(2), result.group(3))

Basically I would like to pattern match parts of a string and return the matches. I have looked at Text.Regex.Posix but (of course I might just not have understood the functions in there properly) it seems as if it does not provide anything like python's re module.

Thanks already,

nick

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