The csv egg in Chicken 4 has been superseded by tabular in Chicken 5, which offers a generalized interface for parsing tabular text data, including fixed-width columns.
-Ivan On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 11:28 AM Matt Welland <m...@kiatoa.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-09-28 at 19:18 +0200, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: > > Am Fri, 27 Sep 2019 23:27:23 +0200 > > schrieb felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Attached is a relatively straightforward patch for SRFI-13. It > > > > changes the let-string-start+end macro (and also > > > > let-string-start+end2 but that isn't exported) so that it uses > > > > let-optionals* and the entire picking apart of the rest arg list > > > > into start/end can be completely inlined, as well as checking the > > > > values against the string length(s). > > > > > > Wonderful! Applied and tagged (0.3). > > > > Would it make sense to apply this also on Chicken 4? > > > > I see the latter living for quite a while. > > > > If nothing else than if it just was for me. :-/ > > It will be a while before I can migrate away from Chicken 4 so count me > among those who would be appreciative of any porting of > fixes/improvements from chicken 5 to 4. I'm keen on getting to Chicken > 5 as soon as possible but it is a large task and is likely to take six > months to a year. > > NOTE: Aside from the effort in porting the code there are still a few > dependencies on eggs that have not been ported. Triming dependencies > may eliminate some of these. A quick crude scan of use statements gave > me this: > > call-with-environment-variables > csv > csv-xml > dot-locking > foof-loop > hostinfo > pathname-expand > ports > regex-case > rpc > s11n > sparse-vectors > srfi-12 > srfi-19 > tcp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Chicken-hackers mailing list > > Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org > > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-hackers mailing list > Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers