That 'less' verb is very useful, I'd never had occasion to use it until now! It could have been a bit more hyped up in the documentation, though, I'd never even seen it used before! (blush)
On 9 September 2013 03:46, Alex Giannakopoulos <aeg...@blueyonder.co.uk>wrote: > Ah, OK, now I got it! > > (": 23 45 6) -. ' ' > > 23456 > > > It wasn't working because I used the empty string '' instead of the blank > string ' '. Doh! > > > > > > > On 9 September 2013 03:31, bob therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Well Dan usually comes up with the really insightful answers, but what I >> see happening is that & is forcing the ' ' as the right argument. When you >> supply your right argument it moves to the left side of -. and then the ' ' >> (empty spaces) are removed. >> >> Hope this helps, bob >> >> On 2013-09-08, at 7:27 PM, Alex Giannakopoulos wrote: >> >> > Great, thanks very much! >> > How does that parse, though? I don't follow. >> > I see a "hook"? of (NOT bond) and <empty-string>, although it's >> obviously >> > not a hook since '' is not a verb. >> > What am I missing? >> > >> > >> > >> > On 9 September 2013 03:14, Dan Bron <j...@bron.us> wrote: >> > >> >> Try -.&' ' in place of ;@cut >> >> >> >> -Dan >> >> >> >> Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device. >> >> >> >> On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Alex Giannakopoulos < >> aeg...@blueyonder.co.uk> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi - I need to join up a list of integers (presented as a rank-1 >> array) >> >>> into a single number. >> >>> >> >>> At the moment I am using the following, >> >>> >> >>> ;@ cut &. ": >> >>> which works, but I wonder if there is something better, not using the >> >>> supplied 'cut' verb, which seems like overkill. >> >>> >> >>> Any suggestions hints pointers gratefully accepted. >> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> For information about J forums see >> http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm