Re: question about find function
- Posted by katsmeow Feb 13, 2021
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Yes, you're looking for match() not find(). There is a fundamental difference in how these work.
The find() function locates an item in a sequence, and with strings each character is an atom that is an item in the sequence, so you're looking for atoms.
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The match() function locates a matching subset of a sequence, and so with strings you're looking a partial string match in a larger string.
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P.S. I agree the documentation needs work. I've asked for help contributing updates and corrections to the documentation. Anyone who wants to offer corrections is free to submit pull requests on GitHub: https://github.com/OpenEuphoria/euphoria/pulls.
-Greg
Years ago, i wrote my own routines, that work as i expect them to. I am not here to work for and fit into the language, but vice versa.
It's strange to see you use the word "strings", it was such a dirty word that began many flame wars on the old forum. Perhaps now match() can be aliased to strfind() ? Well, maybe not, that will find only sub-matches, not equivalences. Must be a reason somewhere....
Github doesn't work for me on windoze. I am not going to install *nix and spend a weekend downloading and debugging *nix packages so i can use yet another google product (github). Making the acquisition of OE more difficult doesn't help. Have you noticed how many $millions Julia has raked in in the 10 years it's been in existance?
Kat
