Sometimes we say "The devil is in the details" when the "fine print" of
a contract may legally bind us in ways that are not apparent on the
surface.

In software development, I think many times our salvation is in the
details. Thanks!

Phil



"H. Chaudet" wrote:
> 
> The MetaCard documentation (Concepts & techniques - 33) says that 'The size
> of token chunks is defined by the MetaTalk language interpreter. In
> general, each continuous string of numeric or alphanumeric characters is a
> token, as is each punctuation mark.'
> I've tryed to precise the 'fuzzy logic' of 'in general'.
> The result is in the following table.
> 
> Character       Is a delimiter            is a token
> ,                      y                      y
> /                      y                      y
> =                      y                      y
> +                      y                      y
> -                      y                      y
> *                      y                      y
> (                      y                      y
> )                      y                      y
> [                      y                      y
> ]                      y                      y
> <                      y                      y
> >                      y                      y
> {                      y                      y
> }                      y                      y
> ;                      y                      n
> space                  y                      n
> tab                    y                      n
> " (if 2 presents)      y(token=chars between) n
> ?                      n
> .                      n
> :                      n
> @                      n
> '                      n
> _                      n
> `                      n
> 
> Don't use # or \ in the string to parse.
> 
> I hope this can be of some interest for somebody else than me.
> 
> Herv� Chaudet
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