[proposal] We have "format"... could we have "scan" ?

[Ormente]

Hi Lutz,



Sometimes REGEX are too slow for simple things that could be better done with the scan, the "inverse" of format.



Do you think it could be possible to have a scan function in newlisp, or have you an alternative to suggest ?



Thanks

[Lutz]

You could do something like this:

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(define (scan fmt txt vars)
    (map set vars (map apply fmt (map list (parse txt))))
)

> (scan '(string float int) "hello 123.45 789" '(str fval ival))
("hello" 123.45 789)
> str
"hello"
> fval
123.45
> ival
789
>


or this variation:

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(define (scan fmt txt)
    (map set (args) (map eval (map list fmt (parse txt))))
)

(scan '(string float int) "hello 123.45 789" 'str 'fval 'ival)