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Lutz,

May we have a fast scanf-style reader to parse input in the next release? Something the opposite of format, perhaps?

Jeff wrote:Lutz,

May we have a fast scanf-style reader to parse input in the next release? Something the opposite of format, perhaps?

I second that.

Did you read my other post about using (read-line) for getting input from user? You can combine that and regular expressions with 'regex' or 'parse' to parse out the components from the input.

Lutz wrote:Did you read my other post about using (read-line) for getting input from user? You can combine that and regular expressions with 'regex' or 'parse' to parse out the components from the input.

Lutz,

I did. Thank you again. I can't believe I missed that in the manual! :-)

Thank you for creating and sharing newLISP too!

It is what I have been looking for. The first LISP that I began to feel comfortable with (after much pain) was Emacs Lisp. But newLISP is now my favorite.

I know, but scanf is faster, more exact, defines types, and uses *much* less memory. Which is why programs still use scanf over regex in many scenarios. Scanf gives me complete control over user input and guarantees that I get either the correct input and input types or that I get nothing at all.