Re: String utility changes/additions

Perhaps a good way to approach this would simply
be to interface an existing string/regex library.

  -- Yann

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 10:47 am, Leon Bottou wrote:
> On Monday 20 March 2006 07:31 pm, Raymond Martin wrote:
> > In there we have:
> >  glob
> >  split-words
> >  merge-words
> >  read-lines
> >  write-lines
> >  #P
>
> These were written by Yann to match the semantics and the names of unix
> shells. This is obvious for <glob>, <split-words> and <merge-words>.
> I am unsure about the <read-lines>/<write-lines> thing.
>
> One could make more general string utilities available
> and reimplement these using the more general facilities.
> The question is to define what general facilities should be available.
> There are already some string utilities in sysenv.lsh
> (stripl, stripr, regex-rseek, regex-split, etc..) whose design
> is questionable.  Too many of them, too hard to remember.
>
> - L.
>
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