Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Plus (Re: PIPEs (really: Slices)) Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 90 06:20:38 GMT References: <7054@sugar.hackercorp.com> <36574@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Nov17.093417.7937@agate.berkeley.edu> Lines: 19 >In article <1990Nov17.093417.7937@agate.berkeley.edu> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes: > >On the same lines, I thought it would be cute to try for a prototype "PIPE" >command in ARexx. Sure enough, if you do "parse args argin"/"say argin", >you nicely get the complete input text. > >One problem... ARexx seems to have no concept of newlines! I can find NO >way to parse argin into single lines. Anyone know of one? > Yes, use the '|' character surrounded by whitespace to indicate the end of every line... (ducking :-) > -- Pete -- -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |