String Manipulation in the New Language
Daniel G. Bobrow · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 1964
String manipulation can be made convenient within the *** language by implementing two functions: 1) match [workspace; pattern] and 2) construct {format;pmatch]. In this memo I describe how I think these two functions can be implemented, and how they might be used to express operations now conveniently denoted in string manipulation languages such as COMIT, SNOBOL, and METEOR.