Re: [Chicken-users] grep should use string-search?

[Felix Winkelmann]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:55:16 -0500, Alejandro Forero Cuervo  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> The manual tells us that grep could be implemented as:
>
> (define (grep regex lst)
>   (filter (lambda (x) (string-match regex x)) lst) )
>
> Indeed, (grep "f"  (list "ale" "fore" "cuer"))  returns the empty
> list.
>
> Shouldn't  grep use  string-search  instead  of string-match?   I
> would be more consistant with what the Unix grep command does:
>
>   echo -e "ale\nfore\ncuer" | grep f

That's reasonable. Especially since string-search is the same
as string-match "^...$".

cheers.
felix