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The Computer Journal 1990 33(2):98-107; doi:10.1093/comjnl/33.2.98
© 1990 by British Computer Society
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String Scanning in the Icon Programming Language

R. E. Griswold *

Department of Computer Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

As a consequence of the primary historical role of computers as a tool for numerical computation, most programming languages have minimal facilities for string manipulation. This paper discusses some of the language design and implementation issues involved in incorporating string scanning, analysis and synthesis facilities into a general-purpose programming language and describes how they have been introduced in the Icon programming language.

Received January 1989.

* Department of Computer Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA


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