The intent with this piece of code - which it achieves - is to make multiple replacements multiple times, resulting in as many copies of of the updated template as there are rows in "rawdata". I often use this technique to generate variants of a piece of code (in a non-J language) or XML based on a boilerplate.
This discussion was useful in alerting me to "rplc" as its argument order seems more natural for this task. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Chris Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what you are doing, but just want to point out that > rplc will do several replaces at once: > > 'abcdef' rplc 'a';'XY';'de';'DE' > XYbcDEf > > On Thursday, May 06, 2010 07:24 AM, Alex Rufon wrote: > > Hi Devon, > > > > I've been having some trouble using rplc without an explicit loop and > your code here is juicy. :) > > > >> body=. ;(<xmlUser) rplc&.> <"1 ,"2 dummies,."(_ 1)rawdata > > > > Thanks! > > > > r/Alex > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
