Re: [Bug-apl] West way to remove substrings?

[Jay Foad]

This is a bit simpler and fixes the empty result problem, and returns a non-enclosed result:

RemoveSubstrings ← {⍵/⍨ ~⊃∨/ (-⍳⍴⍺) ∘.⌽ ⊂⍺⍷⍵}

Like your solution this only works with ⎕IO←0.

On 14 March 2017 at 14:20, Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> wrote:

In a discussion on the #lisp IRC channel recently, someone wanted to remove a certain substring from a larger string. In Lisp, the solution is to simply use cl-ppcre and remove by regex.

But, I started thinking about how to do this in APL, and this is what I came up with:

      RemoveSubstrings ← {,/ ⍵ ⊂⍨ ↑~∨/ (-⍳⍴⍺) °.⌽ ⊂⍺⍷⍵}

Is this a good way of solving the problem? I realise that I have a bug when the resulting string is empty:

      "foo" RemoveSubstrings "foo"
DOMAIN ERROR
λ1[1]  λ←,/⍵⊂⍨↑∼∨/(-⍳⍴⍺)°.⌽⊂⍺⋸⍵
         ^ ^

Does anyone have a better solution?

Regards,

Elias