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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: character Comparison
Date: 2000/02/20
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* "Chris H" <newsgroupNOJUNK@NOJUNKhome.com>
| how do I check if  character 'a' is in word 'banada'
| 
| is any thing like substring() function ?

  yes.  FIND, POSITION, SEARCH, CHAR, SUBSEQ, etc.

  note that most operations on characters and strings in Common Lisp are
  simply special cases of operations on elements and sequences.  many
  C-based programmers are frustrated because they think that Common Lisp
  has few string-handling functions.  Common Lisp has few string-only
  functions, so remember to look for sequence and array functions, too.

#:Erik