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The library CL-PPCRE provides the function split which allows us to split strings in substrings that match a regular expression, discarding the parts of the string that do not. (cl-ppcre:split "\\." "127.0.0.1") ;; => ("127" "0" "0" "1&quot...

Simple split of an IP number string. > (lispworks:split-sequence "." "127.0.0.1") ("127" "0" "0" "1") Simple split of an URL: > (lispworks:split-sequence ".:/" "http://127.0.0.1/foo/bar.html" ...

The split-sequence library provides a function split-sequence, which allows to split on elements of a sequence (split-sequence:split-sequence #\Space "John Doe II") ;; => ("John" "Doe" "II")