David- Now I know that I have to use double single quotes to define a blank in a defined verb, but I can use single quotes in a implicit verb. I need to remember that. Or I can just define blank as a named noun:
* bk=.' '* * dab1 =. 3 :'y#~each-.each bk = each y'* * dab1 a* *┌──────────────┬──────┬───────────────┬────────────────────┐* *│Thetimehascome│forall│goodmentocometo│theaidoftheircountry│* *└──────────────┴──────┴───────────────┴────────────────────┘* Pascal - * dab =: -.&' '* * dab each a* *┌────────────┬──────┬───────────────┬────────────────────┐* *│Nowisthetime│forall│goodmentocometo│theaidoftheircountry│* *└────────────┴──────┴───────────────┴────────────────────┘* That is really cool! much simpler! Don - For my problem, I have to keep the string partitions in place. However, you show that semicolon (Raze) removes boxes. Also semicolon, colon, semicolon (;:;) partitions literals into boxes at spaces . Both are tricks that I need to remember! * a * *┌─────────────────┬────────┬─────────────────────┬────────────────────────┐* *│The time has come│ for all│ good men to come to │the aid of their country│* *└─────────────────┴────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────────┘* * ;a* *The time has come for all good men to come to the aid of their country* * ;:;a* *┌───┬────┬───┬────┬───┬───┬────┬───┬──┬────┬──┬───┬───┬──┬─────┬───────┐* *│The│time│has│come│for│all│good│men│to│come│to│the│aid│of│their│country│* *└───┴────┴───┴────┴───┴───┴────┴───┴──┴────┴──┴───┴───┴──┴─────┴───────┘* * ;;:;a* *Thetimehascomeforallgoodmentocometotheaidoftheircountry* Cool! Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 4:52 AM Skip Cave <s...@caveconsulting.com> wrote: > Given a set of boxed literal strings: > > *]a=.'Now is the time';' for all';' good men to come to ';'the aid of > their country'* > > *┌───────────────┬────────┬─────────────────────┬────────────────────────┐* > > *│Now is the time│ for all│ good men to come to │the aid of their country│* > > *└───────────────┴────────┴─────────────────────┴────────────────────────┘* > > > I can remove all the blanks: > > > > *a#~ each -. each ' '= each a* > > *┌────────────┬──────┬───────────────┬────────────────────┐* > > *│Nowisthetime│forall│goodmentocometo│theaidoftheircountry│* > > *└────────────┴──────┴───────────────┴────────────────────┘* > > > So I try to write a 'delete all blanks' (dab) verb: > > *dab =. 3 :'y#~ each -. each ' '= each y'* > > *|noun result was required* > > *| y#~each-.each* > > What is going wrong? > > > Skip Cave > Cave Consulting LLC > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
