Also, you may find a CRLF delimited series of strings less handy to use than a more J-like representation like this:
$cs=.'ABCD';'DEÄF';'GÖßI';'ÄÖÜß' 4 or the tabular version: $>cs 4 8 >cs ABCD DEÄF GÖßI ÄÖÜß It's easy enough to convert this to the form you originally gave: ;cs,&.><CR,LF ABCD DEÄF GÖßI ÄÖÜß $;cs,&.><CR,LF 31 But that's the sort of thing I would usually only do when I'm ready to output the strings for printing or something. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > You've got utf-8 chars in there. You need to convert to "wide" chars, > then you'll get a matrix that behaves itself. > > These links may be helpful: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Unicode > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/UnicodeGettingStarted > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Rudi Mann <r...@happyplating.eu> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> yesterday I stumbled over the following feature: >> >> charstring=.'ABCD',CR,LF,'DEÄF',CR,LF,'GÖßI',CR,LF,'ÄÖÜß',CR,LF >> >> charstring >> ABCD >> DEÄF >> GÖßI >> ÄÖÜß >> >> #charstring >> 31 >> (How bizarre! I counted 24; 16 letters and 8 control characters!) >> >> I want to create a 4 by 4 character array from this string in order to >> perform operations like transpose, row and column indexing, diagonal >> extraction etc. How can I do that? >> >> Rudi >> r...@happyplating.eu >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
