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Does clojure have raw string?

In Python, I can prefix an r to a string literal (raw string) to tell the interpreter not translate special characters in the string:

>>> r"abc\nsdf#$%\^"
r"abc\nsdf#$%\^"

Is there a way to do the same thing in Clojure?

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John Wang Avatar asked Jun 15 '12 00:06

John Wang


2 Answers

Clojure strings are Java strings and the reader does not add anything significant to their interpretation. The reader page just says "standard Java escape characters are supported."

You can escape the \ though:

user> (print "abc\\nsdf#$%\\^")
abc\nsdf#$%\^

This only affect string literals read by the reader, so if you read strings from a file the reader never sees them:

user> (spit "/tmp/foo" "abc\\nsdf#$%\\^")
nil
user> (slurp "/tmp/foo")
"abc\\nsdf#$%\\^"
user> (print (slurp "/tmp/foo"))
abc\nsdf#$%\^nil
user> 

So, I think the basic answer is no.

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Arthur Ulfeldt Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 17:09

Arthur Ulfeldt


Please also note that if you're using Counterclockwise (the Eclipse plugin for Clojure), there is a mode, called "smart paste" (disabled by default) which takes care of correctly escaping special characters when you paste inside an existing literal String.

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Laurent Petit Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 15:09

Laurent Petit