<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >length-string-number-part</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="DSSSL Library Reference" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Miscellaneous" HREF="r300.htm"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="sgml-root-element?" HREF="sgml-root-elementX3F.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="length-string-unit-part" HREF="length-string-unit-part.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >DSSSL Library Reference: Part of the Modular DocBook Stylesheet distribution</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sgml-root-elementX3F.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="length-string-unit-part.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="LENGTH-STRING-NUMBER-PART" ></A >length-string-number-part</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1772" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >length-string-number-part -- Returns the numeric part of a length string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1775" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >(length-string-number-part lenstr)</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1778" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Given a length as a string, return the numeric part.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1781" ></A ><H2 >Example</H2 ><P ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >"100pt"</TT > returns <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >"100"</TT >. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >"30"</TT > returns <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >"30"</TT >. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >"in"</TT > returns <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >""</TT >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1790" ></A ><H2 >Author</H2 ><P >Norman Walsh, <ndw@nwalsh.com></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1793" ></A ><H2 >Source Code</H2 ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >(define (length-string-number-part lenstr) ;; Returns the numeric part of a length string (let ((digits '(#\0 #\1 #\2 #\3 #\4 #\5 #\6 #\7 #\8 #\9 #\.))) (let loop ((chars (string->list lenstr)) (number-part "")) (if (or (null? chars) (not (member (car chars) digits))) number-part (loop (cdr chars) (string-append number-part (string (car chars))))))))</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sgml-root-elementX3F.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="length-string-unit-part.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >sgml-root-element?</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r300.htm" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >length-string-unit-part</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >