Re: Re: weird escaping problem with StringPattern inside
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- Subject: [mg100883] Re: [mg100860] Re: weird escaping problem with StringPattern inside
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:37:21 -0400 (EDT)
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When in doubt, use RuleDelayed:
"a" ~~ x_ ~~ "c" :> x
Bobby
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:52:59 -0500, dh <dh at metrohm.com> wrote:
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> Hi Roger,
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> to me, the mystery is that your rule works at all. From the manual:
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> "Symbols that occur as pattern names in lhs are treated as local to the
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> rule. This is true when the symbols appear on the right-hand side of /;
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> conditions in lhs, and when the symbols appear anywhere in rhs, even
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> inside other scoping constructs. "
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> The problem seems to be that Mathematica does not always localize
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> pattern variables. It does it only when it thinks it necessary.
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> Consider:
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> Module[{pat, var = x},
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> pat = "a" ~~ x_ ~~ "c" -> x
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> ]
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> this gives: "a" ~~ x_ ~~ "c" -> x
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> on the other hand:
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> Module[{pat, var = x},
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> pat = "a" ~~ x_ ~~ "c" -> var
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> ]
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> gives: "a" ~~ x$_ ~~ "c" -> x
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> this will not work, but it makes sense. Giving the variable name in a
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> variable, it is a good guess to assume that the user does not mean the
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> pattern variable. I could live with this. However, unfortunately it is
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> not consistently implemented. Consider:
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> var = x;
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> pat = "a" ~~ x_ ~~ "c" -> var
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> this gives: "a" ~~ x_ ~~ "c" -> x what is inconsistent compared to the
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> foregoing.
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> I consider this a bug. It would be better when it would work like
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> described in the manual. I think you should inform Wolfram about this.
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> Maybe somebody from the group has something to say about this.
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> Daniel
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> divisor wrote:
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>> Hello MathGroup:
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>> I am having a strange problem where my code works fine in a Notebook
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>> session but acts strangely inside a Module[]. I presume that this is
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>> some scoping problem that is currently beyond me.
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>> I know how Module[] takes local variables and adds "$nnn" or something
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>> to the variable. It is doing a similar thing to my string pattern and
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>> I have no idea how to "escape" this and disable this behavior.
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>> Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.
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>> This code works as expected:
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>> parseVars = {abc, def};
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>> text0 = "the rain in spain stays mainly...";
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>> parsePattern = "the " ~~ abc__ ~~ " in " ~~ def__ ~~ " stays main" ->
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>> parseVars;
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>> Flatten@StringCases[text0, parsePattern]
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>>> {"rain", "spain"}
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>> Print["patt=", parsePattern]
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>>> patt=the ~~abc__~~ in ~~def__~~ stays main->{abc,def}
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>> This is the module containing the exact same logic:
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>> getWeather[inputStr_String] := Module[
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>> {parseVars, parsePattern}
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>> , parseVars = {abc, def};
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>> parsePattern = "the " ~~ abc__ ~~ " in " ~~ def__ ~~ " stays main" -
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>>> parseVars;
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>> Print["patt=", parsePattern];
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>> Flatten@StringCases[inputStr, parsePattern]
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>> ]
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>> This shows the symptom. Notice how the pattern vars are suffixed and
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>> hence do not match those in the rhs of StringCases[] with the result
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>> being all are "no match"!?!?!
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>> getWeather[text0]
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>>> patt=the ~~abc$__~~ in ~~def$__~~ stays main->{abc,def}
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>>> {abc, def}
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>> TIA.
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>> Regards..
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>> Roger Williams
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>> Franklin Laboratory
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DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com
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- Re: weird escaping problem with StringPattern inside Module[]
- From: dh <dh@metrohm.com>
- Re: weird escaping problem with StringPattern inside Module[]