Entries in the s: table can not be removed. A new J session has an s: table consisting of the symbol for the empty string.
----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Brand <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 8:07 Subject: [Jprogramming] Removing entries from the s: symbol table To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > Is it correct that the s: symbol table keeps growing? > > Is there a way to remove entries? > > i.e. > > s: ' one two three' > `one `two `three > 5 {. 0 s: 2 > 0 0 0 0 0 > 0 0 _2147483648 2 1 0 > 0 3 292502397 1 3 0 > 0 1024 0 3 0 > 3 3 320485795 1 3 0 > 0 2048 3 0 0 > 6 5 1310088983 0 0 1 2 > 1536 1 2 0 > 0 0 0 0 0 > 0 0 > 0 0 0 0 > > NB. how can I remove say 'two' from the symbol > table so that the > memory it takes up is relinquished? > > I want to do it because I am using a large number of long strings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
