In article <······················@news.Hawaii.Edu> ····@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jingxiang He) writes:
>I have a question when I try to program in Lisp. I am trying to
>break a string into pieces, for example, break "?!xyz" into
>"?!", "x", "yz". But I could not find a function in Common Lisp
>on how to it. Can any one out there give me a hand?
(setq string "?!xyz")
(subseq string 0 2) -> "?!"
(subseq string 2 3) -> "x"
(subseq string 3 5) -> "yz"
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
······@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar