Because you have a space in your regex, it is treated as a range, from space to underscore which matches a lot of characters. Move the – to the start:
(clojure.string/replace phone #"[- _]" garbage) Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood On 3/8/17, 9:01 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: I built a string matching system, so when we get new records, from crawling the web, we can find out if we already have the same information in the database. There are many parameters to tune, and so I wanted to generate the F1 score for the different parameters. I can easily test True Positives and False Negatives by pulling all the data from the database and firing it at my string matching system. Every record should be a True Positive, since it is coming from our own database. But I also want to find the True Negatives and False Positives, so I am trying to write some code that will garble the database data. So at the REPL I do this: user> (def phone "+31-162-374000") user> (def garbage "eeee") This does what I want: user> (clojure.string/replace phone #"[ -]" garbage) "+31eeee162eeee374000" This doesn't: user> (clojure.string/replace phone #"[ -_]" garbage) "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" and this doesn't: user> (clojure.string/replace phone #"[ -\_]" garbage) "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" What am I doing wrong here? How do I match against an underscore? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
