On June 5, 2011, Leo Butler wrote:
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I haven't been following these threads, but I should say that
cl-ppcre already has these capabilities and much more. The
only thing that needs to be done is to write some code to
make them accessible from the maxima repl.
Likewise, cl-fad provides tools for working with files and
directories.
Both are in Maxima-CAS at the moment.
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Thanks, Leo, for the info about the impending
arrival of more text and file utilities in Maxima.
I am assuming they will be available for the
(non-compiling-source) windows user in the
next version of Maxima?
Also, will there be some documentation
and examples in the help manual?
With my 5.24.0 windows version:
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MAXIMA> (scan "b" "foo bar baz but")
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
Error in EVAL [or a callee]: The function SCAN is undefined.
Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
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Also, I need to explain that my simple examples of
using the current tools in Maxima are just meant
as a simple tutorial introduction, for beginners,
to first baby steps with Maxima programming
and are not meant to be a contribution to the core
abilities of Maxima.
Thanks again,
Ted