> From: Alan K. Stebbens <[email protected]>
>
> > Presumably you mean the alphabetic text between
> > an = and the next non-alphabetic character.
> > For this kind of thing functions other than ;: are
> > more straightforward. Thus:
> >
> > alp=: a.{~,65 97+/i.26
> > f=: (('='={.&>) # }.&.>) @ (-.@(e.&alp) <;.1 ])
>
> Can any of you honestly say that the above sentence is
> "straightforward"? :^)
There is nothing extraordinary there: alp is immediately
recognized and alphabet 'ABC...abc...', and f easily
reads, even without executing to validate (so I might be wrong,
but unlikely):
Preserve (tails of) boxes, which start with '=', after
chopping at non-alpha characters.
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