On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 16:25, Paul <paul_bow...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to perform string replacement a number of times and currently > achieve this using: > > (.replace (.replace (.replace (.replace <string> <old> <new>... > > Is there a more succinct and 'clojurish' way to do this? >
Instead of (.replace (.replace (.replace "ABC" "A" "a") "B" "b") "C" "c") you can write: (-> "ABC" (.replace "A" "a") (.replace "B" "b") (.replace "C" "c")) http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/-> If the list of replacements is quite long, or not known at coding time, you could do something like this: (reduce (fn [orig [old new]] (.replace orig old new)) "ABC" [["A" "a"] ["B" "b"] ["C" "c"]]) http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/reduce // Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
