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The pattern matching library trivia provides a system trivia.ppcre that allows captured groups to be bound through pattern matching (trivia:match "John Doe" ((trivia.ppcre:ppcre "(.*)\\W+(.*)" first-name last-name) (list :first-name first-name :last-name last-name))) ;...

CL-PPCRE:REGISTER-GROUPS-BIND will match a string against a regular expression, and if it matches, bind register groups in the regex to variables. If the string does not match, NIL is returned. (defun parse-date-string (date-string) (cl-ppcre:register-groups-bind (year month day) (...