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Filtering a String for a Set of Characters

Problem

You want to remove all but a specified set of characters from a string.

Solution

This is really a extension of what we talked about in StringCheckForChar. SRFI-13 provides string-filter and string-delete functions, which are inverse operations:

> (require (lib "string.ss" "srfi" "13"))
> (string-filter char-set:letter "Hello, World!")
"HelloWorld"
> (string-delete char-set:letter "Hello, World!")
", !"

The first thing to note is that the SRFI-13 implementation that ships with PLT, as well as the one provided by Schematics, differ from the spec in that they swap the order of the 1st two arguments. This can be a little confusing. Second, both functions allow you to specify the filter argument in 3 ways: as a character, a char-set, or a predicate. For example, the following 3 are equivalent methods of stripping a hyphen from a string:

(string-delete (char-set #\-) "555-1212")
(string-delete #\- "555-1212")
(string-delete (lambda (c) (eq? #\- c)) "555-1212")

It's useful to be able to define a function make-filter which returns a function with arguments partially bound.

(define (make-filter condition)
    (lambda (str)
      (string-filter condition str)))

Once you've defined this, you can call the result directly, or give it a better name:

> ((make-filter char-set:digit) "555-1212")
"5551212"
> (define (digits-only str)
  ((make-filter char-set:digit) str))
> (digits-only "555-1212")
"5551212"

-- GordonWeakliem - 19 Apr 2004

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