On 11/2/2017 5:13 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > \ o: fanout > | copy > | p: parcel
OK, so we're beyond "simple" already. On the other pipe, we'll have to be VERY careful not to add or drop a byte anywhere! But thanks for the example--I hadn't learned PARCEL yet. > | addrdw cms > | spec 1.2 c2d It's always seemed to me there should be some less cryptic (and not limited to 2 or 4 bytes) way to do this. COUNT MINLINE and MAXLINE would seem to be doing it but discarding all but the requested line of output. COUNT (CHARS|WORDS) BY (WORD|LINE)? And while I'm at it, how about an operand for PARCEL to tell it that the alternate input contains lines of the proper length rather than numbers, so this extra manipulation isn't even needed? Not sure what reasonable names for the two choices would be, though. LENGTH could be either, so it's probably a bad choice for both. NUMBER vs. RECORD? ¬R
