Re: [clisp-list] RPM with REGEXP

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * In message <200...@we...>
> * On the subject of "[clisp-list] RPM with REGEXP"
> * Sent on Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:58:05 +0200 (CEST)
> * Honorable Grzegorz Chrupala <gr...@ya...> writes:
>
> I am trying to learn Lisp and as my first language is
> Perl I am used to using regexps for pattern matching.

Well, regexps are very limited in what can be accomplished with them.
(e.g., they are not "Turing complete").
I urge you to explore the power of functional and OO programming
instead of writing Perl code in Common Lisp syntax.
Get Paul Grahams "ANSI Common Lisp" and "On Lisp" and read them.
You will not regret the investment.

> I would like to continue using them with CLISP.

Note that CLISP uses the standard POSIX regexp format (same as egrep and
Emacs) and not the Perl regexp format.
<http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html#regexp>
Feel free to rip perl regexps from perl and make a CLISP module.

> I tried to build CLISP myself (with the regexp module)
> but didn't manage to.

what was your problem?

> Question is, is there a binary
> build for Linux, compiled with regexp?

The usual places, e.g.,
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1355>
install the RPM and run clisp as

$ clisp -K full

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