require'misc' t=.'terrence brannon' t terrence brannon chop t ┌────────┬───────┐ │terrence│brannon│ └────────┴───────┘
'r'chop t ┌──┬──────┬─────┐ │te│ence b│annon│ └──┴──────┴─────┘ 'n'chop t ┌─────┬──────┬─┐ │terre│ce bra│o│ └─────┴──────┴─┘ 2007/3/28, Terrence Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 3/28/07, Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For ordinary splitting, you should start with ;. yes, definition here - http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d331.htm This definition uses a bevy of terms that are lost on me but I hope they become clear with time. > rather than ;: . For example: > > <;._1 ' dazlious eleemosynary deipnosophist aba' > +--------+------------+-------------++---+ > |dazlious|eleemosynary|deipnosophist||aba| > +--------+------------+-------------++---+ my original question was about choosing the split delimiter... how would you split "terrence234brannon" by the regular expression \d+ for instance? not only that, but I get a truncation when I try this unless the string starts with a space. t terrence brannon <;._1 t ┌───────────────┐ │errence brannon│ └───────────────┘ and the split delimiter should be settable to a series of contiguous whitespace, not just a single whitespace character. Finally most people would trim the leading and trailing whitespace from the string before splitting it... > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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