Yes, much. That seems not the case for a character array left argument, thus my 
confusion. Thank you!
What other arguments/verbs play nice with /,  ?

> On Oct 14, 2019, at 3:05 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ok, try this:
> 
>   1 2 3 2 1 </. 'abcde'
> +--+--+-+
> |ae|bd|c|
> +--+--+-+
> 
> The nub of the left argument determines the number of items in the
> result, but it's not sufficient to determine what's in each box.
> 
> Is this clearer?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 1:24 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, I'm still stuck on u=#. (Or "," or "<" or "[" ). I'll try to 
>> understand some harder working verbs, perhaps + or ! or I. or e?
>> 
>>>> On Oct 14, 2019, at 12:18 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:06 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Thank you Raul! I thought I was agreeing, until I got to the following:
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Oct 14, 2019, at 11:40 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> So ... it's the "only the nub" which is relevant here, if you do not
>>>>> care about the calculation which produces the result.
>>>> 
>>>> What calculation? What would be different if (I was allowed to) just 
>>>> supply (~.x) as a left argument? (Assuming I didn't care to waste the 
>>>> cycles calculating the nub when it, at least its size,  is going fall out 
>>>> as a result of looking up each of the eight argument rows).
>>>> 
>>>> But I'll accept that I'm missing something; the alternate that Roger 
>>>> suggested looks like it should do exactly what I was looking for.
>>> 
>>> The X U/.Y calculation.
>>> 
>>> The order and values of X matter for that calculation, since they control 
>>> it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
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>>> Raul
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