| \chapter{String Services} |
| \label{strings} |
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| The modules described in this chapter provide a wide range of string |
| manipulation operations. Here's an overview: |
| |
| \begin{description} |
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| \item[string] |
| --- Common string operations. |
| |
| \item[re] |
| --- New Perl-style regular expression search and match operations. |
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| \item[regex] |
| --- Regular expression search and match operations. |
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| \item[regsub] |
| --- Substitution and splitting operations that use regular expressions. |
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| \item[struct] |
| --- Interpret strings as packed binary data. |
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| \item[StringIO] |
| --- Read and write strings as if they were files. |
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| \item[cStringIO] |
| --- Faster version of \module{StringIO}, but not subclassable. |
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| \end{description} |