On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 06:53:54 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote:
>Steve has it right. Literals take precedent. So it works like this:
>
>Step 1) split as Temp1 '.' Temp2 '.' Temp3
> ...
>Step 2) split the "temps" based on the parsing between literals:
> ...
>
The following performs the operation with a single PARSE:
18 *-* parse value space( INPUT ) with var1 " " var2 " " var3 " " var4 " "
var5 "." var6 "." var7
>V> " word1 word2.word3 word4:word5.word6 word7 hh.mm.ss "
>>> "word1"
>>> "word2.word3"
>>> "word4:word5.word6"
>>> "word7"
>>> "hh"
>>> "mm"
>>> "ss"
-- gil
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