It's all there with libraries, if you hunker down. I came from Perl so yes it's harder. Library-wise, CL-PPCRE and SPLIT-SEQUENCE are your friends, along with

It's all there with libraries, if you hunker down. I came from Perl so yes it's harder. Library-wise, CL-PPCRE and SPLIT-SEQUENCE are your friends, along with a bunch of the sequence operations in the ANSI spec, and finally, you should get comfortable doing some string stuff in LOOP going char by char or word by word.