Overview

estring is a string manipulation library for erlang

Installation

git clone git://github.com/dweldon/estring.git
cd estring && make

Interface

The following examples give an overview of the estring interface. Please see the complete documentation by running make doc.

Matching

> estring:begins_with("fancy pants", "fancy").
true

> estring:contains("los angeles", "angel").
true

> estring:ends_with("fancy pants", "shoes").
false

Comparison

> estring:edit_distance("theater", "theatre").
1

> estring:similarity("speling mistaeks", "spelling mistakes").
0.8823529411764706

IO Helpers

> estring:strip_split(" first<@>second<@>third \r\n", "<@>").
["first","second","third"]

> estring:format("~w bottles of ~s on the wall", [99, "beer"]).
"99 bottles of beer on the wall"

Miscellaneous

> estring:is_integer("35").
true

> estring:squeeze("I  have    too  many   spaces!").
"I have too many spaces!"

> estring:rot13("All your base are belong to us!").
"Nyy lbhe onfr ner orybat gb hf!"

> estring:random(20).
"B0EYJOkOGkC6FjTcZqlR"