On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:30:51 +0100, Jarrett Billingsley
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Simen Kjaeraas <[email protected]>
wrote:
munch("bar-baz", "-");
returns "". Is there a way to do this apart from writing my own
function?
I think you've got the behavior of munch backwards. It will eat any
characters that _are_ in the pattern string. Since 'b' is not in the
string "-", it returns immediately, since it didn't munch anything.
If you're looking for something to split up a string into tokens, you
could either use find or split; the former could be used to slice the
string one piece at a time, and the latter does it all at once at the
expense of allocating a new array to put the slices in.
Sorry, it seems I ferked up a bit there, yes (I did not in the code
in which I intended to use it). And yes, I certainly could use split,
I just wanted to use munch.
Example of what I wanted:
munch("1 + 3", "0123456789+-*")`;
I managed to fix it, though. Just put '-' as the first character of the
string.
--
Simen
