Re: xpl parsing prob

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Hi, Robert. What a fascinating peek into xyW methodology! That's going
right into my Indispensable Reference archive. Many thanks for posting
it.

Where {xs01,02,03,,05}, Herb says if either 01 or 02 "contains data that
xyWrite considers to be numeric rather than string data, xyWrite will
insert an ASCII 19 character into the current file[. ...]" T/F? Ascii 19s
never turn up in the company of my annoying 1s. This is a casual
observation--it's been quite a while since I last saw a 19 (or an 18,
which I've seen more often than 19, but he doesn't mention)--but they
seem to me to occur if you try something like {xs01,02,03,,01}.

≪ So, the short answer to your problem is to turn error suppression off
(ES 0) before parsing. ≫ --Carl

≪ True. But my recollection is that you can also just convert the number
to a string (e.g.  nyc