According to the manual when no str-break token is included in parse the function uses "newLISP's internal parsing rules". Are these described somewhere in the manual?
I've noticed some odd behavior with parse
> (parse {"john d"} " ")
(""john" "d"")
> (parse {"john d"})
("john d")
> (parse {john d})
("john" "d")
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I was assuming a the break token was a space, but the last two examples are different.
I came across this when I tried to parse a single " without including an explicit str-break.
> (parse {"} " ")
(""")
> (parse {"})
ERR: string token too long in function parse : ""
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John
I think the rules are basically: treat the string as if it were newLISP source code:
"(set 't "this is a string") ; a comment"
> (parse s)
("(" "set" "'" "t" "this is a string" ")")
The quote is stripped from the t, and the comment is lost altogether... It's not using spaces, but the components of the language.
I think this:
is parsing [john d] and going to return two symbols, whereas :
is parsing a string that starts and ends with quotation marks - ["john d"] - (you've doubled the string delimiters). If you type this into newLISP:
"john d"
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- it has parsed as itself.
And your last example is like typing this into the terminal:
ERR: string token too long : "this)"
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