2008/9/10 David F. Place <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
