parsing a comma delimited string

[Vebjorn Ljosa]

* Myriam Abramson <mabr...@osf1.gmu.edu>
|
| Could somebody please show me how to loop through a comma-delimited
| string the right way.

With the help of SPLIT-SEQUENCE
(<URL:http://ww.telent.net/cliki/SPLIT-SEQUENCE>):

(split-sequence #\, "foo,bar ,baz, foobar , barbaz,")
=> ("foo" "bar " "baz" " foobar " " barbaz" "")

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Vebjorn Ljosa

[Erik Haugan]

* Myriam Abramson <mabr...@osf1.gmu.edu>
> Could somebody please show me how to loop through a comma-delimited
> string the right way.

As you would loop across any string:

(loop for char across string
...)

What are you trying to do?

Erik

[Thomas F. Burdick]

Vebjorn Ljosa <ab...@ljosa.com> writes:

For what it's worth, I think this is a completely wrong way of doing
this. It conses unnecessarily, and can generally get in the way of
neat tricks. I use a utility to iterate through the string, and call
my code with the start and end of the substrings.

I posted my utilities to do this here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group:comp.lang.lisp+splitting-vector&hl=en&rnum=1&selm=xcvvghhpw95.fsf%40conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU

(Note the messed up error message for call-splitting-vector, when
start < 0, oops)

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