Re: Read-from-string

B. Pym wrote:

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
 

words, but in reality I'll be reading from an input where the number
of words is unknown to me. Is there a way to circumvent this "repeat
3", because it would be "repeat n" and n is unknwon (it's as many
words that the string contains).

 
 
(with-input-from-string (s "lala tata bobo dada qwerty moo goo")
   (loop for token = (read s nil nil nil)
           while token
               collect token))
 

 
(let ((data  "lala tata bobo dada nil qwerty moo goo"))
  (with-input-from-string (s data)
     (loop for token = (read s nil nil nil)
             while token
                 collect token)))
-> (LALA TATA BOBO DADA)

Gauche Scheme

(use srfi-42)  ;; list-ec

(let ((data "lala tata bobo dada #f qwerty moo goo"))
  (call-with-input-string data
    (lambda(in)
      (list-ec (:port token in) token))))

  ===>
(lala tata bobo dada #f qwerty moo goo)