Re: Military time (whoops!)

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> No, this is the Xy 3+ way of using the wildcard for any character: Esc
> X. Those of us in the Xy 4 world just put in the same 3-byter that you
> see on the command line.
Really? Because 1) Why would Robert send a piece of Xy
3 code in response to a query of mine? I'm pretty
upfront about infinitely preferring 4, and not having
used 3 in years. 2) The XPL book (copying from XPL.TXT)
says (under Xtract String:
>>NOTE: XyWrite accepts wild card characters in the
>>string you want to match (#2 above). Use the same
>>wild cards as you use with the Search command. To
>>enter them into the program file, press [Shift][Esc]
>>followed by the wild card letter you want. For
>>example, to search for a single number:

 Type: [Shift][Esc]N
Now that left-pointing arrow is the Esc char; I checked
it with the U2 routine ASC. So I assumed that was what
RH was doing: entering ESC X in a program file to set
the 2d value in the XS command to "Not any character".
I grant that just "Any character" seems a more likely
candidate, but...
> > 2. What on earth does {<}CUA,03{>} mean? I've been through both
> > manuals, Tyson's book, and XPL.TXT and cannot find it.
> It's the "For" part of a For/Next loop definition: which says, starting
> here, CountUp to the value stored in 03 before going past LaBel A (that
> label being the "Next" delimiter of the loop). Consider this one
Well, sure. Once one knows it stands for "count up" one
can find it under those words in XPL.TXT. Who was it
said "everything looks easy when you know how"?

Thanks.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx