Re: Re: xTalk: Re: UFP: Delimiters: A new (better, IMO) idea

[Anonymous]

At 11:17 AM +0200 on 6/20/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

> 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?

Hmm... columns in a file (wait...no...that's delimited by a regexp...)

I know! Sections in a MIME message.