I, too, have had trouble with "amend". My experience with "cut", on the other hand, argues against your thesis. Once you get used to the arbitrary nature of the numeric parameters, what could be more nicely simple than <;._2 fread 'textfile.txt' to read in a file as boxed lines? Even better, for tabular data, say a tab-delimited file, <;._1 TAB,&.><;._2 CR-.~fread 'tabDelimitedTable.tsv' gives me the table I want, all in one simple line.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > > ... Core conjunctions From and Cut are tough, at least in my > > experience. ... > > I meant Amend, not From. And it's an adverb, not a conjunction. (Guess > I don't have to correct the claim that I've had trouble with it!) > > Tracy > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
