Oh.  Yeah.  Duh.  Sorry.

Henry Rich

On 8/18/2011 4:14 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Henry Rich<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> When looking for substrings, you should use (E.i.1:) which has special
>>> code.  http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/special.htm
>>
>> I don't think (E.i.1:) should be preferred to i. .  All of dyad i. is
>> special code.
>
> You might prefer the one over the other if you preferred the one's
> result over the other's result.
>
>        'test' (E.i.1:) 'This might be a test'
> 16
>     'This might be a test'  i. 'test'
> 9 12 3 9
>
> In the first case you are searching for the first instance of a substring.
>
> In the second case you are searching for the first instance of each
> character in the list.
>
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