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Carl's notes

Carl,
This is a belated "Thank you" for your explanation, posted long ago, on
Xy4's enhancements to XPL.

I'm working on some items in a comma-separated database, and it's given me
occasion to use the VA@ feature for extracting a substring.


For those unfamiliar with this, here's the bit from Carl's post of 6/13/02:
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 An extension to VA@ allows easy extraction of segments delimited by a
separator. Suppose this:


;*; Data

Then =="Spring", =="Summer", etc.
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It's much easier to do > than to search for the third comma
in a line, or parse it. And much cleaner.

Thanks again for calling this, and the other, enhancements to our
attention, and explaining them.


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx