Is there a reverse operator to the '%' operator on string ?

[Hamish Lawson]

Boris Boutillier wrote:

> Now  what I'd like to do is revert the '%' operator ... something
> like the 'scanf' C function

The usual way of doing this is with regular-expression matching. They
are a bit more verbose than scanf's patterns, but more general.
Employing named groups in your RE should give you the dictionary of
results that you are looking for.

Hamish Lawson