Re: newline comparison?

[Joe Dale <jdale@uclink.berkeley.edu>]

Chris Uzdavinis wrote:
> 
> 
> Here's the situation: I have a string whose value is a single newline
> character.  (The variable name is 'line'.)  I want to ask in a
> (cond...) statement the question "is this string equal to the string
> containing just a newline?"
> 
> ...
> 
> There must be something I'm overlooking, but this seems ridiculously
> difficult or maybe just underdocumented.  None of the above tests
> work, and I'm kind of unsure how to figure this out.

Actually, I think the problem is that read-line doesn't return the
newline as part of the string. This is documented in the MzScheme
language manual, under System Utilities / Ports / Reading and Printing.

Joe