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Title: (parse x {\n}) vs (parse x "\n")
Post by: kanen on March 15, 2012, 11:19:43 PM

The title says it all.

I have a file called "foo"

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foo
bar
baz
bif
doodle

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> (length (parse (read-file "foo") "n"))
6
> (length (parse (read-file "foo") {n}))
1

What am I missing in this behavior?

Title: Re: (parse x {\n}) vs (parse x "\n")
Post by: Lutz on March 15, 2012, 11:41:54 PM

Quoting with the curly brackets suppresses the backslash escape effect for special characters. See str in:

http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#type_ids

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Forum => newLISP in the real world => Topic started by: kanen on March 15, 2012, 11:19:43 PM