estring is a string manipulation library for erlang
git clone git://github.com/dweldon/estring.git
cd estring && make
The following examples give an overview of the estring interface. Please see the
complete documentation by running make doc.
> estring:begins_with("fancy pants", "fancy").
true
> estring:contains("los angeles", "angel").
true
> estring:ends_with("fancy pants", "shoes").
false
> estring:edit_distance("theater", "theatre").
1
> estring:similarity("speling mistaeks", "spelling mistakes").
0.8823529411764706
> 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"
> 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"