[gambit-list] format & regex
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Feb 5 08:13:46 EST 2009
On 5-Feb-09, at 1:55 AM, Alex Shinn wrote:
> lowly coder <lowlycoder at huoyanjinjing.com> writes:
>
>> 1) sed/awk/grep/perl
>> if possible, i'd like to use gambit for these type of apps instead
>> (being
>> slower is fine; i just want everything in scheme for now) -- is
>> there a good
>> way to do regex matching in gambit?
>
> http://synthcode.com/scheme/irregex/
I concur. Irregex is my favourite portable regular expression library.
>
>
>> 2) fprintf/format
>> pp and display are cool -- but sometimes, I really really want
>> control over
>> my output; how is this generally done in gambit? things like "print
>> this
>> number with 8 chars width, 3 digits after the decimal point" seems
>> kind of
>> hard to phrase
>
> http://synthcode.com/scheme/fmt/
Thanks for the suggestion. I did not know it existed and it looks
really nice.
Marc
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