The initial transcript should have been: Z=: ;:'alpha bravo charlie'
;:inv Z alpha bravo charlie }.;' ';"1,.Z alpha bravo charlie 9!:7]11#' ' ,1 1}._1 _1}.":Z alpha bravo charlie My gmail induced formatting errors are seriously making me reluctant to use email. -- Raul On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Z=: ;:'alpha bravo charlie' > ;:inv Zalpha bravo charlie }.;' ';"1,.Z > alpha bravo charlie > 9!:7]11#' ' > ,1 1}._1 _1}.":Z > alpha bravo charlie > > I think ;:inv is the closest you are going to get to a single > primitive version. There are probably too many worthwhile > possibilities for alternatives (newlines should terminate, commas > should separate, bullets should prefix, ...) for other the > alternatives to be single-primitive > > That said, I do wish that L: would turn constants into verbs the same > way that "_ does: > > ;}.,', ';"1 ,.Z > alpha, bravo, charlie > ;}.,(,.~ 1 |.!.(<' and ') ', '"_ L:0) Z > alpha, bravo and charlie > > > -- > Raul > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Suppose z is boxed strings, eg z=: ;: 'alpha bravo charlie' >> >> I half-recall there's a neater (single-primitive) way to recover the >> string 'alpha bravo charlie' from z than: >> >> b2o=: [: }. [: ; ' ' ,&.> ] >> b2o z >> alpha bravo charlie >> >> but I've forgotten what it is and can't seem to find it in Voc or Dic. >> >> On the page for "Raze" (;) the Dictionary says archly: >> The fit conjunction (;!.f) provides fill specified by the atom f >> but AFAICS (;!.' ')z is the same as ;z , viz: 'alphabravocharlie' . >> >> Nor incidentally is (;) listed as such on the page for "Fit" (!.) . >> >> I observe however that: >> ;:inv z >> alpha bravo charlie >> >> But what's in my mind is a way of interleaving some other letter, or 2 >> spaces, or comma-space, etc. >> >> BTW timer (6!:2) tells me that ;:inv is slower than b2o . >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm