On 6/29/20, HH PackRat <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel a little stupid for asking for help with something probably so > elementary that I'm missing it for some reason. I've done lots of > switching between boxed and unboxed data in the past, but this one's > got me stumped. ... > As I said, I'm stumped by this, and (for pattern matching purposes) > the remainder of my program depends on a row (not column) of 1's and > 0's (although, if necessary, I'm sure I could code the other way). > I'll probably be embarrassed by how simple the explanation is, but at > least I'll be able to continue work on the rest of my program.
A BIG thank you to Raul Miller, Robert Therriault, Julian Fondren, Devon McCormick, and Bill Lam for your helpful responses!!! Raul and Julian, I particularly want to thank you for teaching me a new J idiom that I was not aware of, namely, the one for converting character sequences (strings) to numbers. I'm sure that will be VERY helpful in my future programming! Is there a location somewhere in NuVoc that gathers together J idioms? (I read through the "stdlib" code and learned a few new words beyond "each", "every", and "items".) But I'm sure there must be more J idioms in existence beyond the one you both showed me. And, Bill, thanks for the VERY useful info about J's capacity for operating on data! It's something I'll probably never have to be concerned about. Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
