The examples for cl-ppcre:split here
http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/#split
include this tempting recipe:
(split "\\s+" "foo bar baz
frob")
=> ("foo" "bar" "baz" "frob")
However,
(split "\\s+" " foo bar baz
frob")
=> ("" "foo" "bar" "baz" "frob")
I.e., the result list includes an empty string as the first element if there
are one or more whitespace characters at the beginning of the string.
How can I get rid of the empty string at the beginning? Is there a regexp match
for this that would work with split?
Thanks,
Mark
