[clean-list] questions

[Jenda Krynicky]

From: Attila Ondi <aondi@fit.edu>
> ~ 2) How can I handle Strings easily? There are not too much functions
> that operate on Strings in StdEnv. What I was trying to acieve is to
> parse a String according to some format. More specifically I had
> datatypes ::Icon = I Int Int ::Region = R Int Int Int Int ::Click = M
> Int Int
> 
> The input string to process had a "I x y" "R x1 y1 x2 y2" or "M x y"
> in each line, where the 'x's and 'y's are actual integer numbers. At
> the end of the parsing I wanted to have three lists with types [Icon],
> [Region], and [Click] respectively.

There's nothing better than regexps for string handling, I'm really 
surprised there is no regular expression library for Clean.

Jenda
BTW, I get a JavaScript error 
	Line: 672
	Error: 'F_doLoaded' is undefined
if I go to http://www.cs.kun.nl/~clean/.
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