>Well, the temptation is always there for later...
Scott,
blech! Shame on you!
>I would guess this would mean that the item could be delimited by any
>of those three characters. For example, if you didn't know what the
>path character was, you could do something like:
>put last item by ":" or "/" or "\" of mypath into fname
Hmm.... it's useful. But this "or" business reads to me like the
programmer didn't know
>And while this kind of thing is handy for
>reading from files and doing protocol with other programs, I can't
>think of any problems that would be a whole lot easier to solve if we
>supported it for item chunks.
Many things one does with multi-character delimiters can be scripted using
offset(), but especially in places where "repeat for each item x of string"
is used I could see a use for multi-character itemDelims.
But I've yet to see a list that is actually delimited by multi-character
sequences, so maybe we're solving a problem here that doesn't exist. Anyone
can think of an example?
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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