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I’m trying to learn Common Lisp and want to use regular expressions for parsing a text file. Which library is the easiest to use for a beginner like me? Am I right in assuming it depends on which implementation of Common Lisp I’m using? I see some promising Google results, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to see if I can get some good advice from the Lispers out there. Thanks!
For the beginner just use CL-PPCRE. It is fast, robust and stable, and works fine on any implementation.
There’s also a small trick to make working with it more pleasant – adding a nickname of
REbesidesPPCRE.So you’ll be able to use it this way:
(re:scan ...