>>A recent note asked how, in REXX, to parse a record in this format: >>"word1 word2.word3 word4:word5.word6 word7 hh.mm.ss" > >I admit, I did something similar myself in the compact solution I tendered, and for which I was admonished for needless complexity.
I absolutely liked your solution, Gil. It's elegant. The one I chose (before the initial post) was making use of the fact (which I did not tell you), that I'm not interested 2-5, so I just split the using "." as well. Kind of cheating, I know :-) -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
