Strings
A string manipulation library for GAP.
Licence
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3
Installation
GAP v4.5.5
To initialise the Strings Package, put the Strings folder in the pkg directory of your GAP root and in GAP type:
gap> LoadPackage("Strings");
Alternatively, you can download the source to any/folder/you/like/Strings and then run GAP with
gap -l 'path/to/your/GAP4r5r5/bin/;any/folder/you/like/;'
Quick Start
strpos( haystack, needle, offset )
Returns the starting position of needle contained in haystack. Returns -1 if the needle is not a substring of the haystack.
substr( str, start, length )
Returns a substring of str starting from start for length characters.
str_replace( find_string, replace_string, haystack )
Replaces all occurrences of some find_string with another replace_string in haystack.
FindMatchingBracket( str, open, close )
Finds the closing bracket that matches the first occurrence of open in str.