It's documented under 'more information' in NuVoc: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quotedot#dyadic
I imagine the *how* of finding it is reaching for monadic ". and then being dissatisfied with it, through a process like 1. I want to receive a string and turn it into a number. ".'123' 123 2. Oh, but that's evaluates anything, I don't want *that*! ".'shell ''head -1 /etc/passwd''' root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash 3. Maybe the docs for ". recommend some other verb to use? On 2021-02-18 09:29, R.E. Boss wrote:
Well, both your advices work as predicted. I did not think readcsv would handle the double quotes in an appropriate way, but that I didn't try it is worse. And 0&". is a superb trick, where did you find that? Thanks. R.E. Boss -----Original Message----- From: Programming <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ric Sherlock Sent: donderdag 18 februari 2021 14:38 To: Programming forum <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] csvedit Actually 0&". Seems to convert number strings containing commas OK. 0 ". > '123,555';'253,562.26' 123555 253562
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