[racket] use of SRFIs in Racket

On 09/25/2013 12:01 AM, Edward Earnest wrote:
> Good evening all,
>
> This might be a silly question -- but what is the official status of 
> the included SRFIs in Racket as they relate to #lang racket?
>
> I am working on my first Racket program and I need to be able to test 
> if a given string is present inside another string.
>
> For example: I need to be able to ask if the string "Hello how are 
> you?" contains the word "how".
>
Racket has an amazing amount of stuff in it, and sometimes it's not 
obvious what the built-in alternative to an SRFI is (when there is 
one).  I ran into the same issue as you, looking for functions to test 
and manipulate strings.  The racket built-in alternative is regular 
expression matching:

(regexp-match #rx"how" "Hello how are you?")
http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/regexp-match.html

The best way I know of to find SRFI alternatives is to search the 
mailing list and then ask, just like you did.  My impression is that 
most SRFIs have Racket built-in alternatives.

Thanks,
Dave