Thanks Ric ... I had been trying to use the dyadic ';:' which looks like
it should do the trick, however your solution is just great.

David

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:43 +1300, Sherlock, Ric wrote:
> eg=: 0 : 0
> shan't                
> shanghai              
> shank                 
> shannon               
> shantung              
> shanty                
> )
> 
> 6...@-.&' '  &> <;._2 eg
> 1 0 0 0 0 1
> 
> Quick and dirty - does it help?
> 
> Ric
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:programming-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Vincent-Jones
> > Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:22
> > To: Programming forum
> > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Apostrophe's .. Open Quote
> > 
> > Extracted from the unix-dictionary:
> >    r2
> > shan't
> > shanghai
> > shank
> > shannon
> > shantung
> > shanty
> >    $ r2
> > 6 22
> > 
> > Which word(s) is/are 6 elements long?
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:54 +1300, Sherlock, Ric wrote:
> > > Are you able to provide some example data?
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:programming-
> > > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of David Vincent-Jones
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 09:10
> > > > To: JSoftware
> > > > Subject: [Jprogramming] Apostrophe's .. Open Quote
> > > >
> > > > I am reading in a boxed list of words, some of which contain
> > > > apostrophes. I am trying to compare word lengths that would include
> > the
> > > > apostrophe as one element in the length.
> > > > I am assuming that the 'Sequential Machine' should be able to box
> > > > individual words that include the ' but I am having a problem
> > finding an
> > > > example.
> > > > Help would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
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