>My preference would be a fourth alternative:
>
> put colon-item 3 of "one:two:tree:four"
> put ":"-item 5 ...
> put myDel-item 6 ...
Ruediger,
blech, I hate it. This would be rather confusing for things like 'put
1-item 6 of ...'. Is this now 'put 1 -(item 6 of ...)' or 'put item 6 of
... delimited by "1"' ?
No, that Syntax would make Scott's tech support fellers go crazy in a few
weeks, it's too ambiguous.
Same goes for 'put item(":") of <container>', as that would look like a
function.
My personal favorite so far is still:
put item <start> [to <end>] [[delimited] by <character>] of <container>
It would work well in nested statements, sounds English-like and isn't
ambiguous. Some examples for your personal studies:
put item 1 to 4 by colon of "this:seems:to:work:today" into foo
put item 1 by colon of str of item 7 of str by tab into myRecord
My 0.02 DM
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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