For ordinary splitting, you should start with ;. rather than ;: . For example:
<;._1 ' dazlious eleemosynary deipnosophist aba' +--------+------------+-------------++---+ |dazlious|eleemosynary|deipnosophist||aba| +--------+------------+-------------++---+ You will not find an actual definition of "unit axis" in the dictionary. The authors depend on your good sense to figure out what it is. (Unit means 1.) I think you mean to look at the dictionary page for ;: but you quoted the page for ,: . ----- Original Message ----- From: Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:39 am Subject: [Jgeneral] ;: -- is the word separator parameterizable? > Most agile languages offer a split() function which can split a string > on any delimiter, with a series of whitespace as the default. > > Is it possible to specify what the verb ;: will use to split the > string? > Finally, the dictionary description of ;: is very unlike what I > expected: > <definition url="http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d322.htm";> > ,:y adds a leading unit axis to y , giving a result of shape 1,$y . > </definition> > > -- the above definition does not define unit axis, nor does it > make a > hyperlink to those terms, so it confuses me. > > The Lab: A Taste of J (1) says that it chops a string into words, each > with a box. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
