Hi Randall,
> I read a line, which looks something like:
>
> 01/02/2009 30.00 400.00 t Randall Dow
>
> in which the fields are separated by a varying number of spaces.
> That gets put into L, and then I delete the NILs that come
> from multiple spaces. Do you have a suggestion for a better
> way than this:
>
> (let L (mapcar pack (split (line) " "))
> (loop
> (NIL (memq NIL L))
> (setq L (delete NIL L)) )
> ....
not sure how do you use the parsed fields but what about something
like:
(use (@A @B @C @D @E)
(when (match '(@A " " @B " " @C " " @D " " @E) (line))
(mapcar clip (list @A @B @C @D @E)) ) )
will return the five fields in a list without the delimiting spaces.
Cheers,
Tomas
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