Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@blackwell.co.uk> wrote:
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| 1) Is it possible to access Unix environment variables in Scheme?
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Most implementations provide "getenv". (Fewer provide "putenv" or "setenv"
as well).
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| 2) Is there a regular expression implementation in Scheme...
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As other have said, it's not part of the language, though many
*implementations* have various flavors/APIs. I find the version
in MzScheme quite useful for writing small Web clients, e.g.:
% stockquote SGI IBM DEC MSFT
As of close on Jul 31, SGI = 11 1/8 = 11.125
As of close on Jul 31, IBM = 132 1/2 = 132.5
[*]==> As of close on Jun 11, DEC = 56 11/16 = 56.6875
As of close on Jul 31, MSFT = 109 15/16 = 109.9375
%
[*Note that the "DEC" value froze when they were acquired by Compaq]
The "stockquote" script (about 125 lines of Scheme) makes heavy use of
MzScheme's regexp library functions, as well as its TCP support, to
directly connect to one of the quote pages (well, through a proxy)
and tear apart the HTML that comes back to extract just the bits *I*
want to see... ;-} ;-}
I'll also second the recommendation to look at the SIOD distribution
which (even though SIOD is not R[45]RS) contains several cool examples
of hacking the Web with Scheme.
-Rob
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