Tcl - Re: Stripping characters from a string

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Re: Stripping characters from a string

Alexandre Ferrieux

2007-06-27, 4:22 am

On Jun 26, 11:38 am, "Donal K. Fellows"
<donal.k.fell...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
>
> Sometimes it's easier to pick out the characters you want to keep instead:
>
> set y [regexp -all -inline {\w+} $x]

Sure. But hardly more readable :-)
Moreover, it produces a list, whose string rep may be a bit decorated:

% regexp -all -inline {[$]+} { abc$def$ghi }
{$} {$}

-Alex

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