Re: cl-ppcre:split question

Not with SPLIT, but how about this? CL-USER 1 > (ppcre:all-matches-as-strings "\\S+" " foo bar baz frob ") ("foo" "bar" "baz" "frob") On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Mark H. David <mhd@yv.org> wrote:

The examples for cl-ppcre:split here

http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/#split

include this tempting recipe:

(split "\\s+" "foo bar baz frob")

=> ("foo" "bar" "baz" "frob")

However,

(split "\\s+" " foo bar baz frob")

=> ("" "foo" "bar" "baz" "frob")

I.e., the result list includes an empty string as the first element if there are one or more whitespace characters at the beginning of the string.

How can I get rid of the empty string at the beginning? Is there a regexp match for this that would work with split?

Thanks,

Mark