Ah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for explaining. That's one of the 
problems I have with expanding my knowledge of TW. I find it difficult to 
look beyond the basic uses of the operators and expand my outlook like 
this. Thanks so much.


On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 2:42:05 PM UTC-7 Eric Shulman wrote:

> On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 1:09:02 PM UTC-8 History Buff wrote:
>
>> I saw the first operator, but thought it returned the entire title of the 
>> first item in the list.
>
>
> It *does* return the title of the first item in the list.  However, in 
> this usage, first[] is preceded by split[] with no parameter value, which 
> chops up the initial title text into single character "titles".  Note also 
> that first[...] accepts a parameter for how many items to return.  Thus, 
> {!!title}split[]first[] returns a one-character "title", while 
> {!!title}split[]first[3]join[] returns a 3-character "title".
>
> -e
>

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