Elm:
Removing quotes from a string
How to:
In Elm, you can use the String functions to manipulate strings, such as removing quotes. Here’s a straightforward way to do it:
removeQuotes : String -> String
removeQuotes str =
String.trim (String.filter (\char -> char /= '\"' && char /= '\'') str)
main =
String.removeQuotes "\"This is a 'quoted' string!\""
-- Output: This is a quoted string!Just remember: this little snippet will remove all quotes from your string, so use it wisely!
Deep Dive
Back in the day, dealing with strings was a bit more hands-on, involving lots of manual parsing. Nowadays, languages like Elm make it simpler with built-in functions. The function String.filter is a versatile tool in your arsenal for when you need to fuss over every character, which includes but is not limited to yanking quotes.
As an alternative, you might roll with regular expressions if Elm were to support them portably, which it doesn’t by default. But hey, Elm’s focus on simplicity and safety means our String.filter approach is clear, safe, and easy to maintain.
Elm’s functional approach encourages pure functions without side effects, and removeQuotes is a prime example. It takes a string and returns a new one, leaving the original unharmed. That’s Elm’s immutable data structures at play, promoting predictability and easing your debugging heartache.
See Also
For further reading and related string manipulation adventures, check out Elm’s String module documentation at:
And if you’re ever in a pinch about what Elm supports in terms of string handling or any language feature: