In an earlier post in the awk-like J sentences I used wrong part of
speech where "adverse conjunction" was correct. Yes, awk gracefully
handles bad data. And it's well worth learning if you use files. On
DOS system I install mingw or cygwin. There might be a native version
of gawk as well.
While not helping demonstrate under, fit works with laminate:
'hi',:!.'*' 'there'
hi***
there
('hi',:!.'*' 'there') -: 'hi',:&.(-&(a.i.'*'))&.(a.&i.)'there'
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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:37:32 -0500
From: Raul Miller<[email protected]>
To: Programming forum<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] awk-like J sentences?
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'hi',:'there'
hi
there
'hi',:&.(-&(a.i.'*'))&.(a.&i.)'there'
hi***
there
In that last example, I made the padding character by '*' rather than ' '.
I did this by combining the two strings as numbers rather than literals.
The padding value for numbers is zero. But if I had stopped there I would
have gotten ascii nulls for my padding. So I also combined them under
subtracting by the numeric value for '*'.
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