Subject: Re: Text file to Array Help Please
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:03:01 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3231176581032429@naggum.net>

* Samantha Skyler
| You need to give the computer the dimensions of the array.  Is there
| anyway that you can have the program determin that automatically from
| the text file?

  Build lists of lists, row by row, then give the nested list structure you
  have constructed to make-array as the :initial-contents argument.

  The collect keyword in loop is a great way to build lists.
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