What is the split string method in Clojure?
What are strings in Clojure?
Strings in Clojure are sequences of characters enclosed in double quotation marks (""). String lowercase is one of the methods used to work with strings.
What is the split string?
The split string is a method that performs regular expressions on a string in Clojure.
Syntax
(split str reg)
String split syntax
Parameter
The split method receives two parameters:
str: This represents a string in the syntax.reg: This represents a regular expression in the syntax.
Return value
This method returns the split string. Let's see an example.
Example
(ns clojure.examples.hello(:gen-class))(defn Example [](println (clojure.string/split "John Doe" #"o")))(Example)
Code explanation
- Line 3: We define a function named
Example. - Line 4: We use the
splitmethod on theJohn Doestring by placing the string inside square brackets ([]). We achieve this by passing#as a parameter.
Note: We call thesplitmethod usingclojure.string/split. This is a Clojure standard for calling string methods.
- Line 5: We call the
Examplefunction.