On Wednesday 07 January 2009 15:21, Jeff Foster wrote:
> I'm not understanding re-find.
>
> (re-find #"bar" "bar") => "bar"
>
> whereas
>
> (re-find #"(foo)|(bar)" "foo bar") => ["foo" "foo" nil]
>
> Why does one return a vector and one just the result directly?

The use of capturing parentheses in the latter.


> ... is there any reason it doesn't always return a vector?


Randall Schulz

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