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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 27 Sep 2024 14:15:20 GMT
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:10:37 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 27/09/2024 11:32, 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
>> 
> NOBODY needs REGEX!

Eyesight failing again?



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