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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9PNQH309083
for icon-group-addresses; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:26:17 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:53:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shamim Mohamed <shamim@drones.com>
To: symbiot@my-deja.com
Cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Yet another Newbie question....
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
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> Hi, And thanks in advance to all who have been helping me thru this
> learning curve of getting started in ICON.
> My present problem is trying to write a rountine that counts only
> letters in text and skips blanks, numbers, punctuation, etc.
Homework?
You really need a book on Icon. If you don't want to buy the text,
download and read Tom Christopher's free on-line book. There's a link to
it from the U of A Icon web page http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/.
String scanning is the most natural way of doing this. What does this
code do?
line ? while tab(upto(&letters)) do move(1)
-s