Directory: strings/

This directory contains routines useful for handling strings.

The DLM contains some wrappers to the TRE regular expression engine.

All the matches in a string can be found using the ALL keyword:

  IDL> s = 'ii j i iiii jj ii'
  IDL> print, mg_stregex(s, 'i+', /all, /extract)
  ii i iiii ii

Approximate matches can be found using the APPROXIMATE keyword:

 IDL> s = 'mike mjke Mike Mjke'
 IDL> print, mg_stregex(s, 'mike', /approx, /all, max_cost=1, /extract)
 mike mjke Mike

mg_newline.pro: Returns the newline separator(s) for the OS: linefeed on UNIX platforms and carriage return/linefeeds for Windows.
mg_reads.pro
mg_spellcorrect.pro: Returns the correct spelling of the given word.
mg_stregex.pro: Wrapper for STREGEX which includes a FIND_ALL keyword to find all occurrences within a scalar string.
mg_streplace.pro: Handle string replacment with regular expressions.
mg_string__define.pro: Class representing a string and an example of using operator overloading available in IDL 8.0.
mg_strmerge.pro: Merges a string array into a single string separated by carriage return/linefeeds.
mg_strunmerge.pro: Splits a scalar string with newline characters into a string array.
mg_strwrap.pro: Wrap a string into a character width limit space.
mg_subs.pro: String substitution routine which substitutes values into a given string using the correspondences found in the provided hash or structure.

Personal library of Michael Galloy
Contact me if you have enhancement requests or bug fixes.

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