ccc31807  <cartercc@gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| How do you convert a string to a list in CL? Is there a CL equivalent
| to Perl's split() function, or Java's StringTokenizer class?
+---------------

Others have mentioned the SPLIT-SEQUENCE package & function
[almost identical to Perl's split()], but just so you know,
CL also has the ultimate fine-grained split builtin:  ;-}

    > (coerce "This is a string." 'list)

    (#\T #\h #\i #\s #\  #\i #\s #\  #\a #\  #\s #\t #\r #\i #\n #\g #\.)
    > (subseq * 8 16)

    (#\a #\  #\s #\t #\r #\i #\n #\g)
    > (coerce * 'string)

    "a string"
    > 


-Rob

p.s. Of course, SUBSEQ works directly on strings, too:

    > (subseq "This is a string." 8 16)

    "a string"
    > 

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