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Created August 16, 2010 16:28
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Multi-line strings with margin, scala style
user=> (use '[clojure.contrib.str-utils2 :only [split join]])
user=> (defn ml-str
"Scala style multiline string"
[s]
(let [l (split-lines s)]
(join "\n" (map (fn [b]
(let [i (.indexOf b "|")]
(if (> i 0)
(.substring b (inc i))
b))) l))))
#'user/ml-str
user=> (ml-str "Hello World
|the margin will
|be deleted as per
|the request of scala
|users")
"Hello World\nthe margin will\nbe deleted as per\nthe request of scala\nusers"
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