0 ". (".^:_1) (3 2 $ 0 3 34 0 1 3e_3)
3e_3 instead of 3e-3 was the prob.
--- Bill Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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> I've got a string array, the first two lines of
> which may look like
>
> 0 3 34
> 0 1 3e-3
>
> and I want to turn that into a numeric array. If
> that array is called
> a' , then
>
> 0".a
>
> returns
>
> |ill-formed number
> | ".a
>
> After a bit of testing, I realized that 0".a works
> as documented (among
> other things, it converts "-" to "_") _if_ the
> whitespace in the a array
> is made up of spaces. If part of the array is in
> the form of
> <number><tab><number> (e.g., the output from
> readcsv), those three
> elements (two numbers) will be chunked together and
> seen as one
> ill-formed number which gets converted into 0.
>
> While I can use detab to remove the tabs, is that
> behavior expected?
> Should tabs (in this case) behave as spaces? Is
> there a nice idiom I'm
> missing today?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
> - --
> Bill Harris
> http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/
> Facilitated Systems
> Everett, WA 98208 USA
> http://facilitatedsystems.com/
> phone: +1 425 337-5541
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