I am trying to replace bad characters from a input string.
Characters should be valid UTF-8 characters (tabs, line breaks etc. are ok).
However I was unable to figure out how to replace all found bad characters.
My solution works for the first bad character.
Usually there are none bad characters. 1/50 cases there is one bad character. I'd just want to make my solution foolproof.
(defn filter-to-utf-8-string
"Return only good utf-8 characters from the input."
[input]
(let [bad-characters (set (re-seq #"[^\p{L}\p{N}\s\p{P}\p{Sc}\+]+" input))
filtered-string (clojure.string/replace input (apply str (first bad-characters)) "")]
filtered-string))
How can I make replace work for all values in sequence not just for the first one?
Friend of mine helped me to find workaround for this problem:
I created a filter for replace using re-pattern.
Within let code is currently
filter (if (not (empty? bad-characters))
(re-pattern (str "[" (clojure.string/join bad-characters) "]"))
#"")
filtered-string (clojure.string/replace input filter "")
Here is a simple version:
(ns xxxxx
(:require
[clojure.string :as str]
))
(def all-chars (str/join (map char (range 32 80))))
(println all-chars)
(def char-L (str/join (re-seq #"[\p{L}]" all-chars)))
(println char-L)
(def char-N (str/join (re-seq #"[\p{N}]" all-chars)))
(println char-N)
(def char-LN (str/join (re-seq #"[\p{L}\p{N}]" all-chars)))
(println char-LN)
all-chars => " !\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?#ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO"
char-L => "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO"
char-N => "0123456789"
char-LN => "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO"
So we start off with all ascii chars in the range of 32-80. We first print only the letter, then only the numbers, then either letters or numbers. It seems this should work for your problem, although instead of rejecting non-members of the desired set, we keep the members of the desired set.
Related
I am looking for better ways to check if two strings are equal in Clojure!
Given a map 'report' like
{:Result Pass}
, when I evaluate
(type (:Result report))
I get : Java.Lang.String
To write a check for the value of :Result, I first tried
(if (= (:Result report) "Pass") (println "Pass"))
But the check fails.
So I used the compare method, which worked:
(if (= 0 (compare (:Result report) "Pass")) (println "Pass"))
However, I was wondering if there is anything equivalent to Java's .equals() method in Clojure. Or a better way to do the same.
= is the correct way to do an equality check for Strings. If it's giving you unexpected results, you likely have whitespace in the String like a trailing newline.
You can easily check for whitespace by using vec:
(vec " Pass\n")
user=> [\space \P \a \s \s \newline]
As #Carcigenicate wrote, use = to compare strings.
(= "hello" "hello")
;; => true
If you want to be less strict, consider normalizing your string before you compare. If we have a leading space, the strings aren't equal.
(= " hello" "hello")
;; => false
We can then define a normalize function that works for us.
In this case, ignore leading and trailing whitespace and
capitalization.
(require '[clojure.string :as string])
(defn normalize [s]
(string/trim
(string/lower-case s)))
(= (normalize " hellO")
(normalize "Hello\t"))
;; => true
Hope that helps!
If I have this set
(def my-set #{"foo.clj" "bar.clj" "baz.clj"})
How can I turn it to this pattern string:
"foo\.clj|bar\.clj|baz\.clj"
My attempt :
(defn set->pattern-str [coll]
(-> (clojure.string/join "|" coll)
(clojure.string/replace #"\." "\\\\.")))
(set->pattern-str my-set)
=> "foo\\.clj|baz\\.clj|bar\\.clj" ;I get the double backslash
Better ideas?
In case your set of strings might have other metacharacters than just . in them, a more general approach is to ask the underlying java.util.regex.Pattern implementation to escape everything for us:
(import 'java.util.regex.Pattern)
(defn set->pattern-str [coll]
(->> coll
(map #(Pattern/quote %))
(clojure.string/join \|)
re-pattern))
IDEone link here. Remember, IDEone is not a REPL, and you have to tell it to put values on stdout with e.g. println before you can see them.
You were close to the final solution. Double backslash is displayed because it is shown escaped. When you turn it into a seq you will see individual characters:
(seq "foo\\.clj")
;;=> (\f \o \o \\ \. \c \l \j)
And working solution:
(def my-set #{"foo.clj" "bar.clj" "baz.clj"})
(def my-set-pattern
(-> (clojure.string/join "|" my-set)
(clojure.string/replace "." "\\.")
(re-pattern)))
(re-matches my-set-pattern "foo.clj")
;;=> "foo.clj"
(re-matches my-set-pattern "bar.clj")
;;=> "bar.clj"
(re-matches my-set-pattern "baz.clj")
;;=> "baz.clj"
(re-matches my-set-pattern "foo-clj")
;;=> nil
Edit: OK, this one does in fact work. Probably want to break it apart a bit more if it's meant to be long lived code, but this is the simplest way I could find to do it with minimal string munging.
(defn is-matching-file-name [target-string]
(re-matches
(re-pattern (clojure.string/escape (String/join "|" my-set) {\. "\\."}))
target-string))
The clojure.string/escape here takes two arguments: the string to escape, and a mapping of the characters to escape to the replacement strings. The key in this map is the literal \. and the value needs two backslashes since we want to include one backslash preceding any . in the final string to be used as the argument for the re-pattern function.
I'm trying to convert a hyphenated string to CamelCase string. I followed this post: Convert hyphens to camel case (camelCase)
(defn hyphenated-name-to-camel-case-name [^String method-name]
(clojure.string/replace method-name #"-(\w)"
#(clojure.string/upper-case (first %1))))
(hyphenated-name-to-camel-case-name "do-get-or-post")
==> do-Get-Or-Post
Why I'm still getting the dash the output string?
You should replace first with second:
(defn hyphenated-name-to-camel-case-name [^String method-name]
(clojure.string/replace method-name #"-(\w)"
#(clojure.string/upper-case (second %1))))
You can check what argument clojure.string/upper-case gets by inserting println to the code:
(defn hyphenated-name-to-camel-case-name [^String method-name]
(clojure.string/replace method-name #"-(\w)"
#(clojure.string/upper-case
(do
(println %1)
(first %1)))))
When you run the above code, the result is:
[-g g]
[-o o]
[-p p]
The first element of the vector is the matched string, and the second is the captured string,
which means you should use second, not first.
In case your goal is just to to convert between cases, I really like the camel-snake-kebab library. ->CamelCase is the function-name in question.
inspired by this thread, you could also do
(use 'clojure.string)
(defn camelize [input-string]
(let [words (split input-string #"[\s_-]+")]
(join "" (cons (lower-case (first words)) (map capitalize (rest words))))))
I'm working on writing a function in Clojure that will process a file character by character. I know that Java's BufferedReader class has the read() method that reads one character, but I'm new to Clojure and not sure how to use it. Currently, I'm just trying to do the file line-by-line, and then print each character.
(defn process_file [file_path]
(with-open [reader (BufferedReader. (FileReader. file_path))]
(let [seq (line-seq reader)]
(doseq [item seq]
(let [words (split item #"\s")]
(println words))))))
Given a file with this text input:
International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.
My output looks like this:
[International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make]
[any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from]
[outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.]
Though I would expect it to look like:
["international" "donations" "are" .... ]
So my question is, how can I convert the function above to read character by character? Or even, how to make it work as I expect it to? Also, any tips for making my Clojure code better would be greatly appreciated.
(with-open [reader (clojure.java.io/reader "path/to/file")] ...
I prefer this way to get a reader in clojure. And, by character by character, do you mean in file access level, like read, which allow you control how many bytes to read?
Edit
As #deterb pointed out, let's check the source code of line-seq
(defn line-seq
"Returns the lines of text from rdr as a lazy sequence of strings.
rdr must implement java.io.BufferedReader."
{:added "1.0"
:static true}
[^java.io.BufferedReader rdr]
(when-let [line (.readLine rdr)]
(cons line (lazy-seq (line-seq rdr)))))
I faked a char-seq
(defn char-seq
[^java.io.Reader rdr]
(let [chr (.read rdr)]
(if (>= chr 0)
(cons chr (lazy-seq (char-seq rdr))))))
I know this char-seq reads all chars into memory[1], but I think it shows that you can directly call .read on BufferedReader. So, you can write your code like this:
(let [chr (.read rdr)]
(if (>= chr 0)
;do your work here
))
How do you think?
[1] According to #dimagog's comment, char-seq not read all char into memory thanks to lazy-seq
I'm not familiar with Java or the read() method, so I won't be able to help you out with implementing it.
One first thought is maybe to simplify by using slurp, which will return a string of the text of the entire file with just (slurp filename). However, this would get the whole file, which maybe you don't want.
Once you have a string of the entire file text, you can process any string character by character by simply treating it as though it were a sequence of characters. For example:
=> (doseq [c "abcd"]
(prntln c))
a
b
c
d
=> nil
Or:
=> (remove #{\c} "abcd")
=> (\a \b \d)
You could use map or reduce or any sort of sequence manipulating function. Note that after manipulating it like a sequence, it will now return as a sequence, but you could easily wrap the outer part in (reduce str ...) to return it back to a string at the end--explicitly:
=> (reduce str (remove #{\c} "abcd"))
=> "abd"
As for your problem with your specific code, I think the problem lies with what words is: a vector of strings. When you print each words you are printing a vector. If at the end you replaced the line (println words) with (doseq [w words] (println w))), then it should work great.
Also, based on what you say you want your output to look like (a vector of all the different words in the file), you wouldn't want to only do (println w) at the base of your expression, because this will print values and return nil. You would simply want w. Also, you would want to replace your doseqs with fors--again, to avoid return nil.
Also, on improving your code, it looks generally great to me, but--and this is going with all the first change I suggest above (but not the others, because I don't want to draw it all out explicitly)--you could shorten it with a fun little trick:
(doseq [item seq]
(let [words (split item #"\s")]
(doseq [w words]
(println w))))
;//Could be rewritten as...
(doseq [item s
:let [words (split item #"\s")]
w words]
(println w))
You're pretty close - keep in mind that Strings are a sequence. (concat "abc" "def") results in the sequence (\a \b \c \d \e \f).
mapcat is another really useful function for this - it will lazily concatenate the results of applying the mapping fn to the sequence. This means that mapcating the result of converting all of the line strings to a seq will be the lazy sequence of characters you're after.
I did this as (mapcat seq (line-seq reader)).
For other advice:
For creating the reader, I would recommend using the clojure.java.io/reader function instead of directly creating the classes.
Consider breaking apart the reading the file and the processing (in this case printing) of the strings from each other. While it is important to keep the full file parsing inside the withopen clause, being able to test the actual processing code outside of the file reading code is quite useful.
When navigating multiple (potentially nested) sequences consider using for. for does a nice job handling nested for loop type cases.
(take 100 (for [line (repeat "abc") char (seq line)] (prn char)))
Use prn for debugging output. It gives you real output, as compared to user output (which hides certain details which users don't normally care about).
I'm new to Clojure and I'm doing some basic stuff from labrepl, now I want to write a function that will replace certain letters with other letters, for example: elosska → elößkä.
I wrote this:
(ns student.dialect (:require [clojure.string :as str]))
(defn germanize
[sentence]
(def german-letters {"a" "ä" "u" "ü" "o" "ö" "ss" "ß"})
(doseq [[original-letter new-letter] german-letters]
(str/replace sentence original-letter new-letter)))
but it doesn't work as I expect. Could you help me, please?
Here is my take,
(def german-letters {"a" "ä" "u" "ü" "o" "ö" "ss" "ß"})
(defn germanize [s]
(reduce (fn[sentence [match replacement]]
(str/replace sentence match replacement)) s german-letters))
(germanize "elosska")
There are 2 problems here:
doseq doesn't preserve head of list that created by its evaluation, so you won't get any results
str/replace works on separate copies of text, producing 4 different results - you can check this by replacing doseq with for and you'll get list with 4 entries.
You code could be rewritten following way:
(def german-letters {"a" "ä" "u" "ü" "o" "ö" "ss" "ß"})
(defn germanize [sentence]
(loop [text sentence
letters german-letters]
(if (empty? letters)
text
(let [[original-letter new-letter] (first letters)]
(recur (str/replace text original-letter new-letter)
(rest letters))))))
In this case, intermediate results are collected, so all replacements are applied to same string, producing correct string:
user> (germanize "elosska")
"elößkä"
P.S. it's also not recommended to use def in the function - it's better to use it for top-level forms
Alex has of course already correctly answered the question with respect to the original issue using doseq... but I found the question interesting and wanted to see what a more "functional" solution would look like. And by that I mean without using a loop.
I came up with this:
(ns student.dialect (:require [clojure.string :as str]))
(defn germanize [sentence]
(let [letters {"a" "ä" "u" "ü" "o" "ö" "ss" "ß"}
regex (re-pattern (apply str (interpose \| (keys letters))))]
(str/replace sentence regex letters)))
Which yields the same result:
student.dialect=> (germanize "elosska")
"elößkä"
The regex (re-pattern... line simply evaluates to #"ss|a|o|u", which would have been cleaner, and simpler to read, if entered as an explicit string, but I thought it best to have only one definition of the german letters.