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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