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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 27 Sep 2024 14:13:56 GMT
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:32:05 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:51:25 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:18:01 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> 
>> > One of the favourite functions in my library pulls the next token
>> > from a delimited string, but as opposed to strtok() it does it
>> > non-destructively and can handle empty strings.
>> 
>> Use a high-level language which has all this and more:
>> 
>>     for item in "the,quick,brown,fox".split(",") :
>>         print(item)
>>     #end for
>> 
>> Output:
>> 
>>     the quick brown fox
>> 
>> In Python, strings are objects, and that applies to string expressions
>> (including string literals) as well.
> 
> You need Rexx

Hear, hear. Still use it.



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