Yes, it is what I was looking for. It allows me to pass in local variables. Thanks, JobJob.
One more questions. This replace function allows access to each match in a SubString format. Is there any function to allow the access to each match in the format of RegexMatch to exposure the "captures"? For example: I'd like to convert time format to remove "am" and "pm". Below is one solution (to parse time string twice): y = "time format 02:45pm, 14:20, 03:45am" f(x) = replace(x, r"^0\d:[0-6]\d(am|pm)"i, x->lowercase(x[end-1])=='a'?x[1:end-2]:string(parse(Int,x[1:2])+12, x[3:end-2])); replace(y, r"([01]\d)(:[0-6]\d)(am|pm)"i, f) # "time format 14:45, 14:20, 03:45" If the replace function allows to access each match in RegxMatch format, then the solution could be something like this: replace(y, r"([01]\d)(:[0-6]\d)(am|pm)"i, x->x.capture[3]=="am"?x[1:end-2]:string(parse(Int, x.captures[1])+12, x.captures[2])) and it only needs to parse the time string once. Thanks, again. Julia is great. Yunde On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:24 AM JobJob <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgot to say: welcome to Julia :) > > btw you can see the different methods for a function with e.g.: > julia> methods(replace) > > also to see available documentation for a function type ?, e.g. > ?replace > > >
