In article <[log in to unmask]>,
  Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]> wrote (after pruning):
] Subject:      Re: Word extraction CI evaluator function
] On Jul 24,  9:13am, Tony B. Shepherd wrote:
] > And (no flames intended) what would be done with things like my FTP
] > address: "ftp.iii.net/ftp/pub/pub-site/tbs"?  Aside from the un-matching
] > (?) delimiters problem, would an apostrophe (') in a string indicate an
] > alternative quote in Cobol or possessive case?
] Here's what happens on my experimental build:
] :setvar buf "ftp.iii.net/ftp/pub/pub-site/tbs"
] :calc word(buf)
] ftp.iii.net/ftp/pub/pub-site/tbs
]
] None of these characters are considered a word delimiter.
] Jeff Vance, MPE Lab
 
(No flames intended again) this makes it less than helpful for parsing
filenames, etc.  From the example above, it cannot be used to rip the
group name from an MPE filename.  Guess I'm having trouble appreciating
the problem being solved, so I'll go stand in the corner :-)
 
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Regards  --  Tony B. Shepherd  --  [log in to unmask]