hi all!

i'm wondering how to change the default delimiters for
word/xword.   here's the (rather un-)help(-ful) text
regarding delimiters:

            The default delims are a space, a comma,
            a semicolon, an equals sign, left and right
parentheses,
            left and right brackets, single quote, double
quote,
            and tab.

that's lovely....but how do you change the defaults?  with a
quoted string?  if you change the defaults, do your changes
override/replace the defaults?  or add to the defaults?

use the following string and code snippet as an example:

setvar x 'remote :node hello sesname,mgr/pass.account,group'

setvar i 0
setvar xx x
while xx > ' ' and i < 10
  setvar i i +1
  setvar x!i xword(xx,' .,/')
endwhile
showvar x@

(the i<10 is there to keep the code from going into an
endless loop <sigh>)

i want to extract each 'word' from the string contained in x
(or xx).  if my delimiters are a space, period, comma and
slash -- you'd think that code should work.  i should get
x1 = 'remote'
x2 = ':node'
x3 = 'hello'
...and so on....  but i don't :-(  any thoughts?           -
d

ps -- extra credit for finding the communicator that talks
about word or xword....

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