From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: concatenating strings Date: 15 Nov 2002 20:12:12 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3246379932217723@naggum.no> References: <87u1ijitns.fsf@noetbook.telent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037391132 1223 129.240.65.5 (15 Nov 2002 20:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Nov 2002 20:12:12 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:46796 * rif | In my situation, what's actually happening is that once or twice per | function (in many functions), I need to take a base file name and add an | extension to the filename (not always the same extnsions(s)), so I don't | thing that string-streams help here. Then your next exercise would be to investigate pathnames and their manipulation functions. Sorry about the string-streams detour. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.