How do I replace specific characters idiomatically in Rust?
RegexRustRegex Problem Overview
So I have the string "Hello World!" and want to replace the "!" with "?" so that the new string is "Hello World?"
In Ruby we can do this easily with the gsub
method:
"Hello World!".gsub("!", "?")
How to do this idiomatically in Rust?
Regex Solutions
Solution 1 - Regex
You can replace all occurrences of one string within another with str::replace
:
let result = str::replace("Hello World!", "!", "?");
// Equivalently:
result = "Hello World!".replace("!", "?");
println!("{}", result); // => "Hello World?"
For more complex cases, you can use regex::Regex::replace_all
from regex:
use regex::Regex;
let re = Regex::new(r"[A-Za-z]").unwrap();
let result = re.replace_all("Hello World!", "x");
println!("{}", result); // => "xxxxx xxxxx!"
Solution 2 - Regex
Also you can use iterators and match
expression:
let s:String = "Hello, world!".chars()
.map(|x| match x {
'!' => '?',
'A'..='Z' => 'X',
'a'..='z' => 'x',
_ => x
}).collect();
println!("{}", s);// Xxxxx, xxxxx?