>put item 3 (delim="/" or ":" or "\") of "hello:cruel/world\!"
>would be 3.
Anthony,
"3"? Chunk expressions are for extracting data from strings. Not for
inventing new data. Or did you mean "item 3", that is it'd return "world"?
>(If you want an existing example, think about what a "word" is)
Well, a word is a bit more than that. With a string like:
"This is cool!"
word 3 would be "cool!", whereas
item 3 by " " or tab or return
would be empty (there are two spaces between "is" and "cool"). You'd
effectively have to account for *every* possible number of spaces and tabs
to re-implement "word" with the same algorithm as items use:
item 3 by " " or " " or " " or tab or tab & tab or tab & tab & tab or ...
>It's a lot slower.
Of course! That's why I said we'd need to optimize for single-character
delimiters. Also, it was your proposal. If you thought this was an
argument, you hadn't proposed it, right?
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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