To test whether a noun is a string, there’s the translation into J of one of
the first APL idioms I ever learned:
stringQ =: ‘' -: 0 $ [
Unfortunately, that does not work in J, because a J empty array does not seem
to have what in APL was called a “type”; in particular, in J (and similarly in
some versions of APL):
‘' -: i. 0
1
Hence the need in J for the workaround that Raul shows, namely, doing a 1{.
instead of a 0$.
> On1 Dec 2017 21:34:33 -0500,Raul Miller <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> 1. What do you mean by "an object is string"?
>
> This might do it:
> isString=: ' '= 1{.0{.,
>
> But note that this approach ignores the number of dimensions of the
> value (and don't get me started on "objects").
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Murray Eisenberg [email protected]
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