Re: forward-sexp for strings

[Roland Winkler <winkler@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de>]

Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> writes:
> Roland Winkler <roland.winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
>
>> The function forward-sexp requires a buffer. Is there something
>> similar for parsing strings? Of course, I can always use
>> with-temp-buffer.
>
> (require 'cl)
> (loop with s = "(sexp 1) (sexp 2) \"sexp 3\" sexp-4" 
>       with e = 0
>       for oe = (read-from-string s e)
>       do (print (car oe))
>       while (< (setf e (cdr oe)) (length s)))

Do I need here the (require 'cl)? It seems to me that
read-from-string is really the important thing in your example. And
if this function obeys the current syntax-table (the doc string
doesn't say anything about that) it should be exactly what I am
looking for.

Thanks!

Roland