Flexible String Processing

Version 11 adds a variety of low-level functions that allow flexible manipulation of strings.

Take a string containing a sequence of personal details.

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string = "lastname Doe firstname John age 20 email john.doe@mail.com \ mobile 123-456-7890";

Construct a list of substrings with StringSplit.

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splitstring = StringSplit[string]

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Pad all substrings with spaces on the right to make them be of length 20.

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padstring = StringPadRight[splitstring, 20, " "]

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Partition the resulting expression to group strings by details.

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partstring = Partition[padstring, 2]

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Use StringRiffle to concatenate all strings, inserting newlines between groups and empty strings within each group.

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rifstring = StringRiffle[partstring, "\n", ""]

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The final expression is a String object.

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Head[rifstring]

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An alternative way of inserting newlines is using the function InsertLinebreaks.

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StringTake[ExampleData[{"Text", "AliceInWonderland"}], 200]

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StringTake[ExampleData[{"Text", "AliceInWonderland"}], 200]; InsertLinebreaks[%, 40]

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