On 15/6/99 1:05 pm keith martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Using 'by' and 'delimiter' still only makes true 'linguistical' sense for
>me when written: 'item 2 [of container 1] delimited by myDel'. Saying 'by
>delimiter myDel' isn't *too* bad, but... <sigh>
>
>Let me start again... What would a complete line of script look like? Which
>is better? How do they abbreviate?
>
> put item 2 by delimiter "/" of field 1
> put item 1 by del "/" of fld 1
> put item 1 del "/" of fld 1
>or
> put item 2 of field 1 delimited by "/"
> put item 2 of fld 1 by del "/"
> put item 2 of fld 1 del "/"
>or even
> put item 2 of field 1 using delimiter "/"
> put item 2 of fld 1 using del "/"
> put item 2 of fld 1 del "/"
>
>Oh, I don't know. This is all getting a little cloudy and 'woods for trees'.
I don't really think there is a lot between them. The third example
reads a little better. I don't know if there is any difference between
how hard it is to implement any of them. Any vendor care to speak? (Or
should that be "the usual vendor" ;-)
Regards,
Kevin
PS. The problem with this list is that we can never seem to agree on
something and go "right, thats it - its been decided"...
>k
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