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Re: weird escaping problem with StringPattern inside Module[]

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  • Subject: [mg100810] Re: weird escaping problem with StringPattern inside Module[]
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:19:55 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <h12ggp$edj$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

try

getWeather[inputStr_String] :=
  Block[{parseVars, parsePattern}, parseVars = {abc, def};
   parsePattern =
    "the " ~~ abc__ ~~ " in " ~~ def__ ~~ " stays main" -> parseVars;
   Print["patt=", parsePattern];
   Flatten@StringCases[inputStr, parsePattern]]

Regards
   Jens

divisor wrote:
> Hello MathGroup:
> 
> I am having a strange problem where my code works fine in a Notebook
> session but acts strangely inside a Module[]. I presume that this is
> some scoping problem that is currently beyond me.
> 
> I know how Module[] takes local variables and adds "$nnn" or something
> to the variable. It is doing a similar thing to my string pattern and
> I have no idea how to "escape" this and disable this behavior.
> 
> Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.
> 
> This code works as expected:
> 
> parseVars = {abc, def};
> text0 = "the rain in spain stays mainly...";
> parsePattern = "the " ~~ abc__ ~~ " in " ~~ def__ ~~ " stays main" ->
> parseVars;
> Flatten@StringCases[text0, parsePattern]
>> {"rain", "spain"}
> Print["patt=", parsePattern]
>> patt=the ~~abc__~~ in ~~def__~~ stays main->{abc,def}
> 
> 
> This is the module containing the exact same logic:
> 
> getWeather[inputStr_String] := Module[
>   {parseVars, parsePattern}
>   , parseVars = {abc, def};
>   parsePattern = "the " ~~ abc__ ~~ " in " ~~ def__ ~~ " stays main" -
>> parseVars;
>   Print["patt=", parsePattern];
>   Flatten@StringCases[inputStr, parsePattern]
>   ]
> 
> This shows the symptom. Notice how the pattern vars are suffixed and
> hence do not match those in the rhs of StringCases[] with the result
> being all are "no match"!?!?!
> 
> getWeather[text0]
>> patt=the ~~abc$__~~ in ~~def$__~~ stays main->{abc,def}
>> {abc, def}
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Regards..
> 
> Roger Williams
> Franklin Laboratory
> 


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