I just started getting my hands dirty with Racket on some utility scripts. Overall, it's been a great experience. My scripts are shorter, clearer and faster than the initial Python scripts I wrote (but that could be because they're my second time around).
I did run into one constant obstacle while using Racket: the dearth of convenience string functions. There are plenty of functions for strings, but several functions that are present on other platforms (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, etc.) don't seem to be part of the Racket standard library. Some of the functions I couldn't find but would've been useful were things like (in Racket-type naming): string-starts-with? string-ends-with? string-index-of string-replace string-trim I did a little google searching and most advice said to use the regex library (which I did), but the code isn't as clear had I used functions like the ones above. Do these functions exist anywhere? Is there a great PLaneT package that supplies these functions? Thanks, Cristian ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
