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  1. Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 23 May 1993 19:54:13 MST
  2. Received: by owl.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 23 May 1993 19:54:11 MST
  3. Date: 17 May 93 18:20:24 GMT
  4. From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!pipex!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!nmtigw!peter@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (peter da silva)
  5. Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
  6. Subject: Re: string stripping
  7. Message-Id: <id.227_.RUG@nmti.com>
  8. References: <9305141710.AA04578@midway.uchicago.edu>, <1993May15.080016.8080@smds.com>
  9. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
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  11. Status: R
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  13.  
  14. In article <1993May15.080016.8080@smds.com> rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
  15. > >    If i have a string and i want to strip out certain characters
  16. > >    (internal ones, so trim won't do it), ...
  17.  
  18. > In Lakota I would write
  19.  
  20. >     set-string full {split -. (full)}
  21.  
  22. This is too trivial an excersize. It's even a one-liner in C:
  23.  
  24.     {char*s,*t;for(s=t=full;*t=*s;s++,t+=*t!='.'&&*t!='-');}
  25.  
  26. (grin)
  27. -- 
  28. Peter da Silva                                            `-_-'
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