And more interesting things.

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On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 10:34 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:

> For replacing the masked characters:
>    mask}chars,:'.'        NB. Replace with .s
> A.CD.F.HIJKLM
> or
>    'XYZ' (I.mask)}chars   NB. Replace with specific characters
> AXCDYFZHIJKLM
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:28 AM Jimmy Gauvin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > You might also be interested in the inverse of copy
> >
> > 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 #^:_1 'abc'
> >
> > a b c
> >
> >
> > I remember I had a hard time finding expand
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 1:53 AM ethiejiesa via Programming <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is monadic # what you're looking for?
> > >
> > >        mask # chars
> > >     BEG
> > >
> > > HH PackRat <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hello, all!
> > > >
> > > > I have a list of characters and a boolean list of 1s and 0s.  I
> > > > thought that I could use the boolean list as a "mask" to choose
> > > > characters by using "and" (*.).  But the definition in NuVoc
> basically
> > > > states that it can only be used with numbers (no literals).
> > > >
> > > > Here's an example of the kind of thing I'd like to be able to do:
> > > >
> > > > chars=. 'ABCDEFGHIJKLM'
> > > > mask=. 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0   [boolean values]
> > > >
> > > > mask2=. 0 1 0 0 4 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0   [positions of boolean values]
> > > >
> > > > I thought that I could do something like  chars *. mask to get the
> > > > result BEG.  That doesn't work nor does converting the mask to
> > > > position numbers (mask2) work.  So how *can* I mask the characters?
> > > > I'd be interested in knowing both the "pure" boolean kind of approach
> > > > (1s and 0s only) as well as a positional approach that I can use with
> > > > amending.
> > > >
> > > > My ultimate goal is actually to amend the masked characters to be a
> > > > different character(s).  I hope I've given enough information.  (The
> > > > example, of course, is completely "fake", but I hope it gives the
> idea
> > > > of what I'm trying to do.)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help!
> > > >
> > > > Harvey
> > > >
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