Re: dealing with bad input ']' when reading and printing lines in a

Hi Alex Thank you for your example and further guidance. I'll look into all of those suggestions. Best Regards Dean On 24 January 2017 at 17:02, Alexander Burger wrote: > Hi Dean, > > > I was reading each line in an input file text file, trimming it and > seeing > > if it

Re: dealing with bad input ']' when reading and printing lines in a

Hi Alex > What do you want to do? I was reading each line in an input file text file, trimming it and seeing if it was a member of a list that I'd created. If it was I was recording the list type and the number of the line in the file. Some of the files split their strings (that match the list

Re: dealing with bad input ']' when reading and printing lines in a

Hi Dean, > (de main (Pth) >(in Pth (until (eof) > (setq Rec (str (line T))) > ... > The above is giving me Bad input ']' > I wrongly thought str would cope with this I believe that 'str' is most probably not what you need. It is a rather specialized parser, and normally not used.

dealing with bad input ']' when reading and printing lines in a text file

(de main (Pth) (in Pth (until (eof) (setq Rec (str (line T))) (prinl Rec) The above is giving me Bad input ']' I wrongly thought str would cope with this Any hep much appreciated