Thanks, Raul. I'd wondered if that was it. But I was hoping it was something more useful.
All those solutions involving (>) followed by (,) need to supply those leading or trailing separators somehow. On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > The dictionary is correct. > > However, fill is irrelevant here. > > Fill is used to pad trailing dimensions when they do not match. But > in this thread there are no trailing dimensions. > > Here's an example of what the dictionary is talking about: > > ;!.'.' ,:&.>;:'This is a test' > This > is.. > a... > test > > -- > Raul > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks folx. There's a lot of ideas there. And a heap of my unasked >> questions answered. >> >> Chiefly by omission. I take it everyone agree that the line on the >> page for "Raze" (;) which says: >> The fit conjunction (;!.f) provides fill specified by the atom f >> ...is duff gen? >> >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Suppose z is boxed strings, eg z=: ;: 'alpha bravo charlie' >>> >>> I half-recall there's a neater (single-primitive) way to recover the >>> string 'alpha bravo charlie' from z than: >>> >>> b2o=: [: }. [: ; ' ' ,&.> ] >>> b2o z >>> alpha bravo charlie >>> >>> but I've forgotten what it is and can't seem to find it in Voc or Dic. >>> >>> On the page for "Raze" (;) the Dictionary says archly: >>> The fit conjunction (;!.f) provides fill specified by the atom f >>> but AFAICS (;!.' ')z is the same as ;z , viz: 'alphabravocharlie' . >>> >>> Nor incidentally is (;) listed as such on the page for "Fit" (!.) . >>> >>> I observe however that: >>> ;:inv z >>> alpha bravo charlie >>> >>> But what's in my mind is a way of interleaving some other letter, or 2 >>> spaces, or comma-space, etc. >>> >>> BTW timer (6!:2) tells me that ;:inv is slower than b2o . >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
