clojure.string/replace replaces the portion of the string matched by the regex with the replacement. If you add ".*" to the regex, the regex will match the entire input string and the form will evaluate to "First".
--Steve On May 27, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Glen Rubin <rubing...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a string of the general form: > > Name: Last,First Middle ID: GA88192 > > > I am trying to extract the first name by invoking string.replace function, > for example to extract the first name I invoke the following where > 'nameidstring' is the general form above: > > > (clojure.string/replace nameidstring #"Name:\s(\w+){1},(\w+){1}" "$2") > > Unfortunately, this gives me the First name along with ID: GA88192 > > since i specified a single word {1} in my regex above I don't understand why > this is happening. THank you for any advice > > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.