From: Mohammad Pourheidari
Subject: preserving newlines in strings
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 23:28:00 +0000
Message-ID: <640009@hpclmp.HP.COM>

Is there a way to preserve newlines in a string that is the argument to 
the function read-from-string?

For example given:

(read-from-string "(defun foo (x y)
                      (+ x y))")

should return:

(DEFUN FOO (X Y)
(+ X Y))



thanks, M.

From: Ulf Dahlen
Subject: Re: preserving newlines in strings
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 11:29:07 +0000
Message-ID: <1662@majestix.liu.se>

In article <······@hpclmp.HP.COM> ········@hpclmp.HP.COM (Mohammad Pourheidari) writes:
>Is there a way to preserve newlines in a string that is the argument to 
>the function read-from-string?
>
>For example given:
>
>(read-from-string "(defun foo (x y)
>                      (+ x y))")
>
>should return:
>
>(DEFUN FOO (X Y)
>(+ X Y))

The function READ-FROM-STRING acts like READ but takes its input from
a string. In your example READ-FROM-STRING returns a list. The line
breaks in the output of lists are inserted by the PRINT function. You
might try the function PPRINT if you want "better looking" output. In
any case, this is implementation dependent.

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Dept of Computer & Info Science, University of Linkoping, Sweden

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