Raw string substitution problem

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Dec 18 19:21:10 EST 2009


MRAB wrote:

> In simple cases you might be replacing with the same string every time,
> but other cases you might want the replacement to contain substrings
> captured by the regex.

But you can give it a function that has access to the
match object and can produce whatever replacement string
it wants.

You already have a complete programming language at
your disposal. There's no need to invent yet another
mini-language for the replacement string.

-- 
Greg



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