S-UTILS

A collection of Common Lisp utilities

S-UTILS is collection of Common Lisp utilities. This simple package is used as a building block in a number of other open source projects.

Contents

• Features
• Status
• News
• Platforms
• Downloading
• Installation
• Usage
• API Reference
• Mailinglist
• Changelog
• TODO
• FAQ
• Bugs
• Authors
• Maintainers
• License
• History
• References

Features

S-UTILS helps in:

• manipulating directory pathnames
• copying streams
• doing some elementary parsing (tokenising)
• flexibly formatting dates, times and durations
• parsing integers more safely

Status

S-UTILS is considered stable code.

News

November 2005 - Created as a separate project.

Platforms

S-UTILS is written in ANSI standard Common Lisp and should be portable across any CL implementation.

Installation

The S-UTILS package is loaded using ASDF. There is an excellent tutorial on ASDF to get you started.

CL-USER 1 > (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :s-utils)

Example of setting up and using ASDF to compile and load the package

Usage

Usage of the functionality in S-UTILS is straightforward, as the following examples demonstrate:

CL-USER 1 > (in-package :s-utils)
#<The S-UTILS package, 41/128 internal, 13/16 external>

S-UTILS 2 > (defvar *timestamp* (get-universal-time))
*TIMESTAMP*

S-UTILS 3 > (format-universal-time *timestamp*)
"Sat Nov 19 2005 18:08:51"

S-UTILS 4 > (format-iso-gmt-time *timestamp*)
"20051119T170851"

S-UTILS 5 > (format-universal-time *timestamp* :format +us-date-format+ :stream t) 
Sat Nov 19 2005
NIL

S-UTILS 6 > (format-universal-time *timestamp* :format +us-time-format+ :timezone 0)
"Sat Nov 19 2005 17:08:51"

S-UTILS 7 > (format-duration (- (get-universal-time) *timestamp*))
"5 minutes 18 seconds"

S-UTILS 8 > (tokens *)
("5" "minutes" "18" "seconds")

S-UTILS 9 > (tokens "1-2-3-4-5" :separators '(#\-))
("1" "2" "3" "4" "5")

S-UTILS 10 > (parse-integer-safely "")
NIL

S-UTILS 11 > (parse-integer-safely "x" :default -1)
-1

S-UTILS 12 > (parse-integer-safely "111" :default 123 :start 2)
1

S-UTILS 13 > (parse-integer-safely "111" :default 123 :start 3)
123

S-UTILS 14 > (parse-integer-safely "" :default -1)
-1

S-UTILS 15 > (parse-integer-safely nil :default -1)
-1

S-UTILS 16 > (parse-integer-safely "FF" :radix 16)
255

S-UTILS 17 > (with-input-from-string (in "abcdefghi")
               (copy-stream in *standard-output*)
               (terpri))
abcdefghi
NIL

S-UTILS 18 > (make-subdirectory #p"/tmp/" '("foo" "bar"))
#P"/tmp/foo/bar/"

S-UTILS 19 > (pathname-parent #p"/tmp/")
#P"/"

S-UTILS 20 > (pathname-parent (make-subdirectory #p"/tmp/" "foo"))
#P"/tmp/"

API Reference

There is automatically generated documentation available for the S-UTILS package in doc/API.html.

Mailinglist

There is no mailing list for this project.

Changelog

Release Notes:

• release 1: moved S-UTILS into a seperate project under a new structure

TODO

There is currently no TODO list.

FAQ

Nothing appropriate.

Bugs

There are no known bugs.

Authors

S-UTILS was written by Sven Van Caekenberghe.

Maintainers

S-UTILS is being maintained by Sven Van Caekenberghe.

License

You are granted the rights to distribute and use this software as governed by the terms of the Lisp Lesser General Public License (http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html), also known as the LLGPL.

History

This is a new project.

References

Thera are no references.

Copyright © 2004-2005 Sven Van Caekenberghe, Beta Nine BVBA. All Right Reserved.