From: Chris Wright
Subject: reading from text files
Date: 
Message-ID: <9305509.19795@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
I have an application in which I want to index words from ASCII
text files. The reader will choke on the file if I just (read *my-file*)
(on things like commas not inside back-quotes, and unmatched parentheses etc).
I could read-char, and use a "whitespace" set to get the words. I could
read-line to a string.

What is the best (= fastest in my case) way of doing this. (Other than
writing it in C and foreign-functioning it)

thanks for any suggestions

chris