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From: goldin@spot.uchicago.edu (Alexey Goldin)
Subject: Re: newbie question - lisp equivalent of C's scanf?
In-Reply-To: derway@ndc.com's message of 07 Jun 1996 19:15:33 GMT
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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 20:24:30 GMT

In article <DERWAY.96Jun7121533@alumnae.ndc.com> derway@ndc.com (D. Erway) writes:


   Anyone care to guess why CL has printf, (format), but not scanf?

   Surely someone has had to deal with structured input text.  Anyone willing to
   share their code?

   Thanks,
   Don


SLIB library has scanf (scanf.scm) in Scheme. Probably it will
not be very difficult to rewrite in CL. Check out

http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SCM.html
