Janet stringx: String extras for janet

Overview

This library provides some string utlity functions for Janet, and will be added to as useful missing functionality is discovered. Pull Requests are welcome!

Usage

Time formatting example

(import stringx :as "str")

(def {:hour hour :minute minute } (os/date (os/time) :local))

# Prints time in HHMM, akin to military time
(print (str/pad-left hour "0" 2) (str/pad-left minute "0" 2))

Cleaning out disallowed chars from a file

(defn clean-path-string [mypath] 
  (string/replace-pairs 
    [
     # Based on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file
     # Either remove, or change unsafe chars
     "<" ""
     ">" ""
     ":" "."
     "\"" ""
     "/" ""
     "\\" "+"
     "?" ""
     "|" "+"
     "*" "+"
     ] mypath))

Status

v0.1. Feel free to use this, but APIs are subject to change for the time being.