Hi Bill, I get the same result as you with J601. 0 ". '100 12 121 12' 0
I did get around it by doing 0 ". detab '100 12 121 12' 100 12 121 12 It can be found here: c:\j601\system\main\convert.ijs (4) NB. detab remove tab stops NB.*detab v remove tab stops detab=: 3 : 0 But still, it doesn't answer your question why its failing without detabbing it first. :P r/Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Harris Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:57 PM To: J Programming Forum Subject: [Jprogramming] Problem with "Numbers" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I haven't used J much in a month or two, so maybe I've just forgotten some important stuff, but I'm having trouble with ". For example: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0 ". '80 595.135 0.0286453 9404.84 0.00127859' 0 $0 ". '80 595.135 0.0286453 9404.84 0.00127859' ". '80 595.135 0.0286453 9404.84 0.00127859' 80 595.135 0.0286453 9404.84 0.00127859 $ ". '80 595.135 0.0286453 9404.84 0.00127859' 5 9!:14 '' j602/2008-03-03/16:45 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The whitespace is a tab character; when I replace it with a space, it works. Is that correct? Is that documented somewhere? When I use tabs instead of spaces in - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +/ 3 4 5 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I get the expected 12, so J does seem to recognize implicit lists (no commas) that have tabs. Thanks, Bill - -- Bill Harris http://facilitatedsystems.com/weblog/ Facilitated Systems Everett, WA 98208 USA http://facilitatedsystems.com/ phone: +1 425 337-5541 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: For more information, see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFH2LQt3J3HaQTDvd8RAsdYAJ9WasF8vU1K1ks/UUm58bSoUgSi5gCeN4Ua d3V02ZkdNLVXpqivUoekTAM= =Cxq2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
