Glenn, The first STRING in split is to distinguish between ANYOF and a sequence of characters. E.g., SPLIT STRING x0a
j. 2009/1/9 Glenn Knickerbocker <[email protected]>: > "John P. Hartmann" wrote: >> I'd forgot that SPEC calls something to scan a delimited string that >> quietly gobbles up STRING to mean that it is a delimited string and >> not test for hex or binary. > > Wow, I missed that news item for 1.0107 sublevel 111 ( 6F ), and in 15 > years I never even saw that example of "split string string xabcx" in > the doc for delimitedString. I don't quite get why you didn't remove > STRING from the syntax of SPLIT&co. then, but I guess it's a little late > now! > > ¬R >
