Hello, I would like to remove some characters from String, but that seems to be really complicated in Julia :frowning: Example: str = "ž1ž1" r = r"1" idx = eachmatch(r, str) .|> o -> o.offset result = String(deleteat!(collect(str), idx)) I’m used to working with strings as character arrays, with…

If you just want to work on bytes you should use codeunits instead of collect: str = "aa <12> bb <c> ąą <123> dd" r = r"<.+?>" mask = BitArray((0, 1, 1)) matches = collect(eachmatch(r, str))[mask] ranges_to_remove = [m.offset:(m.offset + sizeof(m.match)) for m in matches] ranges_to_keep = setdiff(1…

Removing characters from String

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DNF January 26, 2021, 11:18am 7

 replace(str, r"<(\w+)>"=>s"\1")

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Removing characters from String

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