From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Newbie Help Please: Reading into a list from a file Date: 1999/05/01 Message-ID: <3134571515815601@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472946871 References: <37266b90.3567519@news3.newscene.com> <3134473642124751@naggum.no> <7gcnek$294$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * Vassil Nikolov | One difference whose importance depends on the particular problem is that | with (PEEK-CHAR T ...) one does not have control over what exactly white | space is. really? I control the meaning of whitespace by modifying the readtable in an application. e.g., I have made all control characters into whitespace _except_ newline, which is an important delimiter in my data stream. in what way does this not work? #:Erik