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[Michał "phoe" Herda]

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Pierre R. Mai wrote:

> ;;; The following functions are based on the versions by Arthur
> ;;; Lemmens of the original code by Bernard Pfahringer posted to
> ;;; comp.lang.lisp.  I only renamed and diddled them a bit.
> 
> (defun partition 

[snip]

>    ;; DO: Find a more efficient way to take care of :from-end T.
>     (when from-end
>       (setf seq (reverse seq))
>       (psetf start (- len end)
>              end   (- len start)))

I've written a different version now for dealing with :FROM-END T.
It doesn't call REVERSE anymore, which makes it more efficient. 
Also, I prefer the new semantics. Stuff like
  (split #\space "one   two three  "  :from-end t)
now returns
  ("three" "two" "one")
which I find a lot more useful than
  ("eerht" "owt" "eno")
If you prefer the latter, it's easy enough to use
  (split #\space (reverse "one   two three  "))


Here it is (feel free to use this code any way you like):

(defun SPLIT (delimiter seq
		   &key (maximum nil)
			(keep-empty-subseqs nil)
			(from-end nil)
			(start 0)
			(end nil)
			(test nil test-supplied)
			(test-not nil test-not-supplied)
			(key nil key-supplied))

"Return a list of subsequences in <seq> delimited by <delimiter>.
If :keep-empty-subseqs is true, empty subsequences will be included 
in the result; otherwise they will be discarded.
If :maximum is supplied, the result will contain no more than :maximum 
(possibly empty) subsequences. The second result value contains the 
unsplit rest of the sequence.
All other keywords work analogously to those for CL:POSITION."

;; DO: Make ":keep-delimiters t" include the delimiters in the result (?).

  (let ((len (length seq))
    (other-keys (nconc (when test-supplied 
			 (list :test test))
		       (when test-not-supplied 
			 (list :test-not test-not))
		       (when key-supplied 
			 (list :key key)))))

(unless end (setq end len))
(if from-end
    (loop for right = end then left
	  for left = (max (or (apply #'position delimiter seq 
				     :end right
				     :from-end t
				     other-keys)
			      -1)
			  (1- start))
	  unless (and (= right (1+ left) )
		      (not keep-empty-subseqs)) ; empty subseq we don't want
	  if (and maximum (>= nr-elts maximum))
	  ;; We can't take any more. Return now.
	  return (values subseqs (subseq seq start right))
	  else 
	  collect (subseq seq (1+ left) right) into subseqs
	  and sum 1 into nr-elts
	  until (<= left start)
	  finally return (values subseqs (subseq seq start (1+ left))))
  (loop for left = start then (+ right 1)
	for right = (min (or (apply #'position delimiter seq 
				    :start left 
				    other-keys)
			     len)
			 end)
	unless (and (= right left) 
		    (not keep-empty-subseqs)) ; empty subseq we don't want
	if (and maximum (>= nr-elts maximum))
	;; We can't take any more. Return now.
	return (values subseqs (subseq seq left end))
	else 
	collect (subseq seq left right) into subseqs
	and sum 1 into nr-elts
	until (= right end)
	finally return (values subseqs (subseq seq right end))))))



Here are some examples of how you can use this:


CL-USER 2 > (split #\space "word1   word2 word3")
("word1" "word2" "word3")
""

CL-USER 3 > (split #\space "word1   word2 word3" :from-end t)
("word3" "word2" "word1")
""

CL-USER 4 > (split nil '(a b nil c d e nil nil nil nil f) :maximum 2)
((A B) (C D E))
(F)

CL-USER 5 > (split #\space "Nospaceshere.")
("Nospaceshere.")
""

CL-USER 6 > (split #\; "12;13;;14" :keep-empty-subseqs t) 

("12" "13" "" "14")
""

CL-USER 7 > (split #\; "12;13;;14" :keep-empty-subseqs t :from-end t) 

("14" "" "13" "12")
""

CL-USER 8 > (split #\space "Nospaceshere.    ")
("Nospaceshere.")
""

[Michał "phoe" Herda]

I suggest to put the original message in a text file inside the repository to preserve the original sources.