1. I am surprised that regexp-replace* does not work on input-ports like all
other regexp- functions. I assume Matthew has a rationale but my quick look
didn't discover it in the docs.
2. I ran this stupid little program below. The timing for a file of 19990186
chars over 9896 lines, with 9922 occurrences of "abc" clocks in like this:
cpu time: 4570 real time: 4629 gc time: 2164
How much too slow is this? -- Matthias
#lang typed/racket
(define file "/tmp/test.txt")
#;
(with-output-to-file file
#:exists 'replace
(lambda ()
(for: ((i (in-range 10000000)))
(define r (random 1000))
(cond
[(= r 13) (display "abc")]
[(= r 27) (newline)]
[else (display "de")]))))
(: f (-> (Listof String)))
(define (f)
(define next (read-line))
(if (eof-object? next)
'()
(cons (regexp-replace* next "abc" "xy") (f))))
(collect-garbage)
(collect-garbage)
(collect-garbage)
(define x (time (with-input-from-file file f)))
On Feb 7, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Harry Spier wrote:
> I wasn't able to find in the Racket documentation a string function
> that replaces substrings in a string based on the content of the
> substring. Something similar to Python's string replace method .
> s = "abcdefabcdef"
> s.replace("abc" "123") -> "123def123def"
>
> But more surprising, I also wasn't able to find such a function in
> SRFI13 which is supposed to be a comprehensive set of operations on
> strings.
> Its string-replace function is based on position not on content of the
> substring.
>
> Is there some functional programming reason for not having such a
> built-in function in Racket/Scheme, or is the idea that you use
> regular expressions to do this.
> My understanding is that regular expressions can be quite expensive.
> I have Python programs which convert Indian language book length
> etexts from one transliteration scheme to another so I'm calling the
> Python replace function hundreds of thousands of times per e-text and
> doing multiple replaces with each call.
>
> I'd like to convert these programs to Racket, but using regular
> expressions might be too slow. Is writing a C foreign function.
> extension my only alternative or is there such a function in some
> Racket package..
>
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
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