Apropos

mismatchFunction

    Syntax
    mismatch sequence-1 sequence-2 &key from-end test test-not key start1 start2 end1 end2
    position
    Arguments and Values

    Sequence-1 — a sequence.

    Sequence-2 — a sequence.

    from-end — a generalized boolean. The default is false.

    test — a designator for a function of two arguments that returns a generalized boolean.

    test-not — a designator for a function of two arguments that returns a generalized boolean.

    start1, end1bounding index designators of sequence-1. The defaults for start1 and end1 are 0 and nil, respectively.

    start2, end2bounding index designators of sequence-2. The defaults for start2 and end2 are 0 and nil, respectively.

    key — a designator for a function of one argument, or nil.

    position — a bounding index of sequence-1, or nil.

    Description

    The specified subsequences of sequence-1 and sequence-2 are compared element-wise.

    The key argument is used for both the sequence-1 and the sequence-2.

    If sequence-1 and sequence-2 are of equal length and match in every element, the result is false. Otherwise, the result is a non-negative integer, the index within sequence-1 of the leftmost or rightmost position, depending on from-end, at which the two subsequences fail to match. If one subsequence is shorter than and a matching prefix of the other, the result is the index relative to sequence-1 beyond the last position tested.

    If from-end is true, then one plus the index of the rightmost position in which the sequences differ is returned. In effect, the subsequences are aligned at their right-hand ends; then, the last elements are compared, the penultimate elements, and so on. The index returned is an index relative to sequence-1.

    Examples
    (mismatch "abcd" "ABCDE" :test #'char-equal)  4 
    (mismatch '(3 2 1 1 2 3) '(1 2 3) :from-end t)  3 
    (mismatch '(1 2 3) '(2 3 4) :test-not #'eq :key #'oddp)  NIL 
    (mismatch '(1 2 3 4 5 6) '(3 4 5 6 7) :start1 2 :end2 4)  NIL
    See Also

    Section 3.6 (Traversal Rules and Side Effects)

    Notes

    The :test-not argument is deprecated.