Re: problem with (string-tokenize string charset)

[Stan Pinte]

On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 00:22:40 -0800, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Stan Pinte <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 09:24:20 +0100
>
> guile> (string-tokenize "stan-henry" (char-set #\-))
> ("-")
>
> --> as documented, this should return ("stan" "henry").
>
> perhaps you aren't seeing this documentation:

Indeed. The "make install" target from guile-core-2002... doesn't seem to 
update the "info" documentation for guile.

Is this a known issue?

thanks a lot for the clarificaction!

Stan.

> - Scheme Procedure: string-tokenize s token_set start end
> Split the string S into a list of substrings, where each substring
> is a maximal non-empty contiguous sequence of characters from the
> character set TOKEN_SET, which defaults to `char-set:graphic' from
> module (srfi srfi-14).  If START or END indices are provided, they
> restrict `string-tokenize' to operating on the indicated substring
> of S.
> the token set defines the charset of the tokens, rather than of the
> delimiter; you need to invert it to get the desired behavior.  e.g.:
>
> guile-tools --source split-string-no-nulls | fgrep -A5 '. sep'
>
> thi



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Stan Pinte