On 12/02/20 09:55, Chapman Flack wrote:
> In Perl, there is a useful extension to regexp substitution where
> you specify the replacement not as a string or even a string with &
> and \1 \2 ... magic, but as essentially a lambda that is passed the
> match and returns a computed replacement. That makes conversions of
> the sort discussed here generally trivial to implement.
Python, I should have added, allows that also. Java too, since release 9.
Regards,
-Chap
