At 8:44 PM +0200 on 6/16/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
> 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
This is essentially what the non-abbreviated form of mine is. But mine the
complete nonsence:
put item item item 5 delimited by "." of c to item 6 delimited by return of
d delimited by space to 2 of a delimited by comma of b into
what_the_hell_is_that
That, btw, is perfectly legal under the syntax stated above. And it is
absolute <i>Unsinn</i>!!
It's a little better if the delimiter is kept with the "item"!
