[Cuis-dev] String>>findTokens: delimiters

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Hi Ron!
 is it ok if we add them as part of the Cuis base image?
 If so, do you have tests for them?

Cheers!
Hernan.

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 11:03 PM Ron Teitelbaum <ron at 3dicc.com> wrote:

> I was thinking about not responding because of all the flak I got last
> time I mentioned my methods that I use all the time.
>
> But for what they are worth.
>
> Here are my methods explode and mergeDelimited:
>
> Collection >> explode: aDelimiter
> "explode the collection into a collection of collections broken by
> aDelimiter"
> "(#(#(1 2) #(3 4)) mergeDelimited: Character tab ) explode: Character tab
> = an OrderedCollection(#(1 2) #(3 4))
> 'abcdef' explode: 'cd' = an OrderedCollection('ab' 'ef')"
> | resultCollection starting aDelimiterPosition aDelimiterSize |
> self ifEmpty: [^self].
> resultCollection := OrderedCollection new.
> aDelimiterSize := aDelimiter isCollection ifTrue: [aDelimiter size]
> ifFalse: [1].
> starting := 1.
> [aDelimiterPosition := aDelimiter isCollection ifTrue: [self
> indexOfSubCollection: aDelimiter startingAt: starting] ifFalse: [self
> indexOf: aDelimiter startingAt: starting ifAbsent: [0]].
> aDelimiterPosition > 0] whileTrue: [
> resultCollection add: (self copyFrom: starting to: aDelimiterPosition - 1).
> starting := aDelimiterPosition + aDelimiterSize.
> ].
> resultCollection add: (self copyFrom: starting to: self size).
> ^resultCollection
>
> Collection >> mergeDelimited: anObject
> "return to reciever a collection with each element concatenated to remove
> imbeded collections"
> "#(#(1 2) #(3 4)) mergeDelimited: Character tab = #(1 2 Character tab 3
> 4),  #('ab' 'cd') mergeDelimited: Character cr = 'ab
> cd' "
> | returnCollection aSeperator |
> self ifEmpty: [^self].
> aSeperator := anObject isCollection ifTrue: [anObject] ifFalse: [Array
> with: anObject].
> returnCollection := self first species new.
> self copy from: 1 to: self size -1 do: [:a |
> a ifNotNil: [
> returnCollection := returnCollection, a, aSeperator
> ].
> ].
> ^returnCollection, self last
>
> They are really great workhorses and work the way you would expect!
>
> All the best,
>
>
> *Ron Teitelbaum*
> *Chief Executive Officer**3D Immersive Collaboration Consulting, LLC*
> ron at 3dicc.com
> www.3dicc.com
>
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>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 7:01 PM Hernan Wilkinson via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> Last Sunday I could not find it because I did not remember the name of
>> the message!
>> I agree that #findTokens: is not a good name.
>> For compatibility with other smalltalks I would use #substrings:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 8:45 PM Gastón Caruso via Cuis-dev <
>> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, some minutes ago I’ve just asked in the telegram group about
>>> this method, I knew that Pharo had a method called String>>#substrings:
>>> character or something like that, with the same purpose.
>>> Ruby has a method called String>>#split: a_string (which I think is the
>>> best name).
>>>
>>> It don’t think the name intention revealing at all. If you agree I can
>>> rename that method with all the senders of the base image, but still there
>>> are some packages that uses this (like Network).
>>>
>>> What do you think? Do you agree that this name can be improved? Do you
>>> think that split is a better name? if not, what do you suggest?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gastón
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>>
>>
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