Re: Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sep 22 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Here's a real life example:
>
> (defun org-babel-js-read (results)
> [...]
>        (org-babel-read
>         (concat "'"
>                 (replace-regexp-in-string
>                  "\\[" "(" (replace-regexp-in-string
>                             "\\]" ")" (replace-regexp-in-string
>                                        ",[[:space:]]" " "
>                                      (replace-regexp-in-string
>                                       "'" "\"" results))))))

       (org-babel-read
        (let* ((t1 (replace-regexp-in-string "'" "\"" results))
               (t2 (replace-regexp-in-string ",[[:space:]]" " " t1))
               (t3 (replace-regexp-in-string "\\]" ")" t2))
               (results (replace-regexp-in-string "\\[" "(" t3)))
          (concat "'" results)))

Andreas.

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