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- Subject: changing delimiter char??
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:08:24 GMT
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- Organization: GM Research Labs
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- If I have a string say, "a b c" and get the second word, it'll return "b"
- because the space is a delimiter. I am pretty sure that there is a way
- to *change* the delimiter to any character, say '^', but I cannot find any
- reference to this in the Hypertalk reference manual. Can someone please
- tell me how to do this? I think there is a parameter to set. What I *really*
- want to do is have a string like "foo bar^fubar^fu the bar^..." and if I
- get the FIRST 'word' (or item?) it should return "foo bar" and so on.
- If anyone posts an answer before Monday, could you please also send me
- email at foobaz@AOL.com
- so I can read it at home during the weekend?
- Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- -Kurt
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