truly, racket seems to do anything string-related by means of regular expressions, like the usual string-replace one would expect being available as simply regexp-replace.
You should learn regexes. They're not the one-and-only solution like in Perl, but they are truly handy in string processing. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Cristian Esquivias <[email protected]> wrote: > I just started getting my hands dirty with Racket on some utility > scripts. Overall, it's been a great experience. My scripts are > shorter, clearer and faster than the initial Python scripts I wrote > (but that could be because they're my second time around). > > I did run into one constant obstacle while using Racket: the dearth of > convenience string functions. There are plenty of functions for > strings, but several functions that are present on other platforms > (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, etc.) don't seem to be part of the Racket > standard library. > > Some of the functions I couldn't find but would've been useful were > things like (in Racket-type naming): > > string-starts-with? > string-ends-with? > string-index-of > string-replace > string-trim > > I did a little google searching and most advice said to use the regex > library (which I did), but the code isn't as clear had I used > functions like the ones above. > > Do these functions exist anywhere? Is there a great PLaneT package > that supplies these functions? > > Thanks, > Cristian > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
