RRic, Your solution is quite a bit simpler than mine! All data is characters. Linda
-----Original Message----- From: Programming [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ric Sherlock Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:41 PM To: Programming JForum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] How many years did each person live? Here is a reasonably concise one but I suspect not your preferred version f1=: (, {: -&.(".@>) {.)"1 f1 E ┌────┬───────────────────────┬────┬─────┐ │1809│Philip St. George Cooke│1895│86 │ ├────┼───────────────────────┼────┼─────┤ │1836│Flora Cooke Stuart │1923│87 │ ├────┼───────────────────────┼────┼─────┤ │1833│Jeb Stuart │1864│31 │ ├────┼───────────────────────┼────┼─────┤ │1834│Jacob Sharpe │189 │_1645│ └────┴───────────────────────┴────┴─────┘ Here is a simpler explicit one. f2=: 3 :'y ,. 8!:0 -/"1 (_99) ". > 2 0 {"1 y' On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Linda A Alvord <[email protected]> wrote: > Nowdefine a verb to add a 4th column of the life span of each person. > > > > A=:'1809';'Philip St. George Cooke';'1895' > > B=:'1836';'Flora Cooke Stuart';'1923' > > C=:'1833';'Jeb Stuart';'1864' > > D=:'1834';'Jacob Sharpe';'189' > > [E=:A,B,C,:D > > -----T-----------------------T----┐ > │1809│Philip St. George Cooke│1895│ > +----+-----------------------+----+ > │1836│Flora Cooke Stuart │1923│ > +----+-----------------------+----+ > │1833│Jeb Stuart │1864│ > +----+-----------------------+----+ > │1834│Jacob Sharpe │189 │ > L----+-----------------------+----- > > > > Linda > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
