On 2/12/07, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I'll download 5.11.0 then
> (still using 5.10.0), and check the "exact" option of "describe". RJF's
> comments were along the lines of my next thought, which was that
> help/describe or whatever should be able to use regular expressions. I
> don't know, though, if any flavour of lisp supports regular expression
> matching.
About regex stuff, Maxima contains a copy of the NREGEX package.
It seems to work OK. A more extensive package is CL-PPCRE
which implements regexes in the style of Perl. CL-PPCRE is more
powerful than NREGEX but it is also much larger.
Robert