Yes. It will probably take a while for you to become comfortable, but once you have become fluent with irregex and the other very nice libraries, there is no go

Yes. It will probably take a while for you to become comfortable, but once you have become fluent with irregex and the other very nice libraries, there is no going back. Then here are some very nice SRFIs around to do most of what you want, and I believe chicken comes with basic pattern matching facilities as well (although not as sweet as the ML-type which are checked at compile time).