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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
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- Organization: Draper Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug27.175521.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:29:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.175521.1@sejnet.sunet.se>,
- eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas) writes:
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- >... you have no way in the language to halt on just a SPACE when you
- >need to do that. ...
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- There's always
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- parse var something foo " " bar " " baz
-
- Of course, this only works for data separated by single spaces.
- Multiple spaces are still a problem.
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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